The All India Radio National Poets Conference is to be held in Chennai on coming Thursday. It will be inaugurated by the Tamil Nadu Governor Bunwarilal Purohit.<br />''<br />''This is the first time the city would be hosting the Sarva Basha Kavi Sammelan since its launch in 1956.<br />''<br />''The programme head of AIR, Chennai Dr V.Chakravarti said, the national symposium of poets serve as a creative platform for national integration and linguistic harmony.<br />''<br />''22 poets representing as many languages included in the eighth schedule of the Constitution would be presenting their poems.<br />''<br />'' Scholars in Hindi and Tamil will present the translated version of the poems in the Conference itself. The programme will be aired on the 25th of this month.