Ahead of President Pranab Mukherjee’s scheduled Uttarakhand visit on April 1, Dehradun DM Ravinath Raman and SSP Dr Sadanand Date met the district officers at Collectorate on Tuesday and gave them necessary instructions to complete preparation of the programme on time. Mukherjee would attend a programme at Swami Ram Himalayan University, Jolly Grant, Doiwala.
DM Raman said that President would reach Jollygrant Airport at 4.10 pm on April 1 from where he would depart for the progarmme venue at Swami Ram Himalayan University at 4.30 pm. After the programme is over, the President would leave the venue at 5.40 pm for Jollygrant Airport from where he would depart for Delhi at 5.50 pm the same day.
All the district officers were directed to be present during the mock drill at the Airport, and programme venue to be held on Wednesday. The district officers were assigned their duties and responsibilities for the programme at the meeting. Officers were directed to be present at Police lines from where they would be transported in a single bus for Jollygrant.
SSP Date said that elaborate security arrangements have been made in view of President’s visit. Four SPs, nine DSPs, 18 inspectors/ police station in-charges, 51 sub-inspectors, nine women sub-inspectors, 29 head constables, 300 constables, 24 women constables, 21 armed police forces, one traffic inspector, two traffic sub-inspectors, four traffic head constables and 11 traffic constables and four companies of PAC have been deputed for the purpose.
Others present at the meeting were additional DM Pratap Shah, city magistrate lalit Narayan Mishra, SP City Ajay Singh and chief medical officer Dr SP Aggarwal.