Former US president Bill Clinton on Sunday visited the sleepy Indian village of Rampur in the northern Uttar Pradesh state where he opened a technology institute named after his wife Hillary.
A tight ring of security was thrown around Rampur, about 190 kilometers 118 miles) from the Indian capital New Delhi, where hundreds of people had gathered to welcome Clinton who arrived at the village late in the afternoon.
"I am very happy that the institute has been opened in my wife's name," he told the gathering for the inaugural function of the Hillary Clinton Center for Multimedia Technology. Mrs Clinton was recently elected senator for New York.
The village people garlanded him and performed a folk dance in his honor.
He also inaugurated another institute for technology at the village, as well as an education centre named after himself.
The former US president was scheduled to return to the Indian capital New Delhi in the evening and then later drive down to Jaipur, the capital of the northwestern Rajasthan state.
Clinton is on a week-long visit to India, mainly to look at rehabilitation efforts in Gujarat which was devastated by an earthquake in January.
On Saturday evening, Clinton flew down from Calcutta to New Delhi where he had a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee -- RAMPUR, India (AFP)
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