Amid tight security, President Pranab Mukherjee reached Dehradun and attended convocation of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy at Forest Research Institute on Friday. The district police had made elaborate security arrangements with the deployment of additional police forces at various places, including statistic locations, Dehradun airport and GTC Helipad aside from places nearer to FRI and Rajbhawan.
Uttarakhand Governor Dr KK Paul, chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, Vidhan Sabha Speaker Premchandra Aggarwal and other senior bureaucrats were among the dignitaries who received the President at Dehradun airport at around 11.25 am. From there, President flew to GTC Helipad and the cavalcades of the VVIPs reached FRI at 12.20 pm. After the convocation was over he reached Raj Bhawan at around 1.40 pm where he stayed for the night.
Additional police forces have been deployed to ensure fool-proof security arrangements during President’s tour of Uttarakhand, the Dehradun officials said. In Dehradun district, the team that has been tasked with the VVIP security comprised 12 SPs/additional SPs, 16 DSPs, 26 inspectors/police station in-charge, 153 sub-inspectors, three woman sub-inspectors, 49 chief constables, 616 constables, 27 women constables, nine companies of PAC jawans, six armed chief constables, 40 armed constables, seven traffic inspectors, seven traffic sub-inspectors, 21 traffic head constables and 41 traffic constables.
It should be mentioned here that as per the scheduled plan, President would fly to Badrinath to pay obeisance to the deity at the shrine from GTC Helipad at around7.30 am on Saturday.