Security is being stepped up in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled one-day Uttarakhand visit on October 20. He is scheduled to offer prayer at Kedarnath shrine and then fly back to Delhi from Jolly Grant Airport.
A meeting and briefing was held at Jolly Grant on Wednesday, attended by the administrative and Police top brass, in connection with the upcoming high- profile visit. State additional Director general of Police (law and order) Ashok Kumar chaired the meeting and reviewed security preparedness with the officers present. He later said that they are ensuring full-proof security for the visit.
A senior police officer said that as per the scheduled programme, Prime Minister Modi would land at Dehradun Airport, Jolly Grant by a special IAF at around 9 am on October 20. He would be taken to Kedarnath shrine on an IAF helicopter at around 10 am. After offering prayer there, he would return to Jolly Grant at 12.30 pm and fly back to New Delhi. Among those present at the briefing were IG (intelligence) AP Anshuman, Garhwal range Deputy inspector general of Police Pushpak Jyoti, Dehradun District magistrate SA Murugeshan, senior superintendent of police Nivedita Kukreti, commandant (ATC) Neeru Garg and SP (intelligence) Sweety Aggarwal aside from some senior administrative officers.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made with the deployment of additional Police forces at various places and strategic locations in the state, SSP
Kukreti said, adding that two SPs, one deputy SP, three inspectors/Police station in-charges, nine sub-inspectors,
six head constables, 40 constables, 4 women constables, onetraffic constable, two traffic constables, two armed head constables, 10 constables, one company PAC, one tear gas team and one QRT team have been deployed on duty.
ADGP Kumar said that the police personnel have been directed to reach the places of their assigned duties much ahead of the VVIP arrival and inspect such areas thoroughly.
The nodal police officers have been asked to send their sub-ordinates to duty after checking their identity cards, he added.