In view of the visit of President Pranab Mukherjee, the officials of state administration and police organised a rehearsal on Sunday. Incidentally the visit to Dehradun would be the last visit of the Pranab Mukherjee as President of India. The official machinery of the state is all geared up for one day visit of the President. To check the preparedness the senior officials reviewed minute to minute details of the programme of the President’s visit.
The rehearsal on the day started from the Dehradun airport and the fleet of the vehicles reached Presidential Aashiyana at Rajpur road from GTC helipad at army cantonment. After the rehearsal, an extensive debriefing session was held by the senior officers. In the session, the District Magistrate (DM) of Dehradun S A Murugeshan directed all the officials to work with utmost coordination during the visit of the President. To discuss the security measures to be taken up during the visit of President a detailed session attended by senior officials of Police and state administration was also held at Police lines on Sunday. Minute details of security arrangements were discussed during the brainstorming session.
The rehearsal was attended by Garhwal commissioner Vinod Sharma, Additional Director General (DG) law and order Ram Singh Meena, Inspector General (IG) law and order Deepam Seth, IG, Intelligence A V Anshuman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Garhwal Pushpak Jyoti, District Magistrate of Dehradun S A Murugeshan, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nivedita Kukreti and other senior officials.