Myanmar's iconic pro-democracy leader Aung SanSuu Kyi is visiting India from Nov 13-18, her first trip to the country after agap of nearly 40 years.
Suu Kyi will deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecturehere Nov 14, the ministry of external affairs said here Friday.
She is to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during hervisit.
Manmohan Singh had extended an invitation to Suu Kyi tovisit India when he was in Myanmar in May.
Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy,had accepted an invite from United Progressive Alliance chairperson SoniaGandhi in her capacity as Chairperson of Nehru Memorial Fund to deliver theNehru Memorial Lecture.
She is also scheduled to call on Vice President HamidAnsari, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar and External Affairs Minister SalmanKhurshid, a statement said.
Myanmar's opposition leader was conferred the JawaharlalNehru Award for International Understanding in 1992.
Suu Kyi will visit her alma mater, Lady Sri Ram College,where she will interact with the faculty and students and also visit The Energyand Resources Institute.
She will also travel to Bangalore where she will visit theIndian Institute of Science and the Infosys Campus.
She is also scheduled to tour rural areas in Andhra Pradeshto gain a firsthand impression of the rural development and women's empowermentprogrammes being undertaken in India.
Suu Kyi's India visit is part of India's "ongoingengagement with the democratic and multi-party polity in Myanmar. It wouldprovide opportunity to exchange views on all matters of mutual interest with aview to building upon the positive momentum in India-Myanmar relations."
India and Myanmar have strengthened their "close andfriendly relations" with exchanges of high-level visits, including thestate visits of the Myanmar President Thein Sein to India in October 2011 andPrime Minister Manmohan Singh to Myanmar in May 2012.
Suu Kyi was under house arrest in Myanmar for almost 15 ofthe 21 years from July 20, 1989, until her release Nov 13, 2010.
Her connection to India goes back to her youth when hermother, Khin Kyi, was appointed ambassador to India and Nepal in 1960.
Suu Kyi studied in the Convent of Jesus and Mary School, andgraduated from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi with a degree in politics in1964.