Elaborated security arrangements have been made for the proposed visit of President of India Pranab Mukherjee here on June 6. More than 3,000 police personnel would maintain strict vigil, while IG Upendra Jain would be in-charge of the security.
Mukherjee would reach here by special plane at 11.15 am and participate in three programmes. He would leave for Jabalpur, the next day. There would be 16 vehicles in the cavalcade of the President.
The in-charge of security arrangements at the venues would be DIG D Srinivas Varma. For better security arrangements at all the three venues, the police headquarters has provided additional police force of 2,000 cops including 100 inspectors, 100 sub-inspectors, 150 ASIs, 300 head constables and 1500 constables from police training schools (PTS), Special Armed Forces (SAF) and other zones.
Besides, around 1,000 cops from Bhopal zone have been made available for the security purpose. Among senior officials deployed in the VIP security include four DIGs, 10 SPs and 50 DSPs.
Rehearsal of the security is being held for the past three days. The police officials took the cavalcade of the dummy President from airport to all the venues. Final rehearsal would take place on Wednesday.
After reaching the Rajabhoj airport at 11.15 am, the President would directly leave for Mughalia Kot, in the outskirts of Bhopal, where he would lay foundation stone for Atal Bihari Vajpayee Hindi University at 12.15 am. Thereafter, he would reach Governor House at 1.15 pm and have lunch. From here, he would reach Rajiv Gandhi University of Technology and attend the convocation function.
At 5.45 pm, he would leave for tribal museum and after inaugurating it, the President would reach Governor House at 6.59 pm. After night stay there, he would leave for Jabalpur, next day at 10 am. After having participated in several programmes in Jabalpur, Mukherjee will return to Bhopal and have dinner with Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at his residence. The next day, on June 8, he will leave for Indore at 10 am.