Patna, June 17: Vice-President Hamid Ansari will visit Patna on June 24 to take part in the inaugural session of an international conference organised by Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) as part of its silver jubilee celebrations.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar and governor Ram Nath Kovind will also take part in the meet, an ADRI press note said of Friday.

The conference will run for four days (June 24 to 27) on the theme "social statistics in India".

The main goal of the conference is to deliberate on the strengths and challenges of the official statistical system in India, particularly its role in providing adequate social statistics.

This will be the second international conference organised by ADRI as part of its silver jubilee celebrations. The first one was held in March.

The conference will have eight technical sessions, 10 silver jubilee lectures and one panel discussion.

Twenty-nine research papers will be presented in these working sessions, covering various dimensions of social statistics in India.

Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative director Sabina Alkire, John Harriss from Simon Fraser Unversity, Indian Council of Social Science Research chairman Sukhadeo Thorat, International Institute for Population Sciences director Faujdar Ram, V.K. Ramachandran from Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, chief statistician of India T.C.A. Anant, chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian and IGC India Central country-director Pronab Sen will be few of the prominent speakers at the conference.