Uttarakhand Chief Secretary S Ramaswamy reviewed preparations for the scheduled Uttarakhand visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 3 and President Pranab Mukherjee on May 5 with the senior officers of various departments like police, transps ort, health, power and water supply on Tuesday. While the PM would go to Kedarnath shrine the President would this time reach Badrinath.
As per the proposed programme, PM would land at Jollygrant airport at 7.25 am on May 3 and would fly to Kedarnath from there. He is expected to reach the shrine at 8.50 am. From Kedarnath, he is scheduled to reach Haridwar where he would inaugurate a research institute at Patanjali Yogpeeth. He is scheduled to fly back to Delhi at 12.50 pm.
President Pranab Mukherji would participate in the convocation of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy based Dehradun as the chief guest on May 5. Mukherji would go to Badrinath to pay obeisance to the deity at the shrine.
As per the proposed programme, he would reach Dehradun Airport at 10.50 am on a special flight on May 5. Governor, chief minister, chief secretary and DGP would be among the dignitaries who would receive the President at Jolly Grant. President would stay the night at Governor House and would depart for Badrinath at 7.25 am on May 6.
Among those present at the review meeting were additional chief secretary Omprakash, DGP MA Ganapathy, principal secretary home Dr Umakant Panwar, principal secretary MSME Manisha Panwar, secretary Finance Amit Negi, secretary protocol Shailesh Bagoli, Commissioner Garhwal Vinod Sharma, additional DGP Ram Singh Meena, IG AP Anshuman, IG Sanjay Gunjyal, DM Ravinath Raman, DM Chamoli Vinod Kumar Suman, DIG Pushpak Jyoti and SSP Sweety Aggarwal.