Elaborate security arrangements are being made around Jolly Grant Airport and Parade Ground in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Uttarakhand visit slated on December 27. Additional director general of police (law and order) Ram Singh Meena said on Fridaythat a meeting had been held at the secretariat regarding the PM’s upcoming visit and several decisions had been taken to strength security. Adequate police forces have been deputed for security purpose at the venues and strategic locations across the district ahead of the visit, he said.
Notably, Prime Minister would land at Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun by a special IAF aircraft and from there he would go straight to Parade Ground in the city to unveil the foundation stone of the all-weather roads for Char Dham. He may address the people from the rostrum to be made for the unveiling.
Meena said that senior police officers have been directed to take necessary security measures regarding PM’s visit. Additional police forces, SPs, additional SPs, DSPs, police station –in-charges or inspectors, sub-inspectors, women sub-inspectors, head constables, constables, women constables, PAC companies, traffic inspectors, traffic head constables, fire units, head armed police forces and armed constables would be assigned duties for the visit. Besides, policemen would be deployed in adequate strength around the venues PM would visit and at strategic locations. A bomb disposal squad, jammer and dog squad would be put into operation to make the security fool-proof, he added.