In view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled trip to Uttarakhand to pay obeisance to Kedarnath Shrine on May 3, Garhwal Range DIG Pushpak Jyoti, DM Ravinath Raman and SSP Sweety Aggarwal briefed the police officers and personnel deputed on PM’s security duties at Police lines in Dehradun Monday. Senior Government officers reviewed security preparedness of PM’s visit of Uttarakhand and gave necessary instructions to the officers as a part of strengthening the security. The officers deputed on PM’s security duties have been directed to reach their assigned duty around three hours before the arrival of PM and other VVIPs. The officers were directed to establish coordination with their sub-ordinates to complete their duty. It should be mentioned here that as per the proposed programme, PM would land at Dehradun 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.
DIG Jyoti said that elaborate security arrangements have been made with the deployment of additional police forces that include three SP/ASPs, four DSPs, two inspectors, one police station in-charge, 14 sub-inspectors, nine chief constables, 65 constables, four woken constables, one party tear gas, one platoon of PAC and one unit fire service.