Bhopal

City set to welcome President

PNS

The final dress rehearsal for the proposed day-long visit of the President Pranab Mukherjee in the city on June 28 has been completed. The senior district and police officials on Thursday visited all the programme venues of the city and took stock of the preparations and security arrangements where President Pranab Mukherjee is scheduled to visit on June 28.

Divisional commissioner Sanjay Dube, IG Vipin Maheshwari and district collector Aakash Tripathi accompanied by senior district and police officials on Thursday visited Takshila centre of Devi Ahilya university, Residency Kothi and the Brilliant Convention Centre where the President is scheduled to visit on June 28 and gave necessary instructions to the officials concerned to plug any kind of loophole in the security measures on the eve of President’s visit.

The final dress rehearsal of convocation ceremony of DAVV was performed at Takshshila campus of the university on Thursday in the presence of senior district and police officials.President Pranab Mukherjee during his day long visit to the city on June 28 will inaugurate the golden jubilee convocation ceremony of Devi Ahilya University at Takshsila campus of the university at 12.30 pm. Thereafter, he will visit Brilliant Convention Centre where he will address teachers, guardians and peoples representatives under the ‘school chalo abhiyaan’ of the State Government at 5 pm.

Meanwhile, all the preparations for President’s visit in the city have been completed. Security pickets have been put in place and jawans and been deputed on all the locations from where, the President’s cavalcade will pass.

Chouhan said that he always remain concerned for the problems of the people of State. The BJP Government of the State has always remained sensitive over the problems of the MISA detainees and their problems would also be resolved. “The honorarium of Rs 15,000 per month provided to the MISA detainees is not sufficient keeping in mind the increasing the dearness hence provisions would be made to link it with the increasing inflation,” he added.

He called on the democracy savers to utilise their energy in the development of State and country. Country is fast moving ahead under the leadership of Narendra Modi, however to make it powerful creative and conceptualise efforts are required, he added.

Earlier, Chouhan was accorded warm welcome by the national patron of loktantra Rakshak Sangh Meghraj Jain, national convener Kailash Soni and Faridullah. A shawl, shrifal and memento were also presented to him on the occasion. MISA detainees from all over the country were present on the occasion.