A day ahead of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Uttarakhand visit, a minute to minute rehearsal and debriefing involving Special Protection Group (SPG) officers, the administrative officers and the policemen were held at Dehradun Airport, Kedarnath Dham and Patanjali Yog Peeth in Haridwar on Tuesday.
An administrative officer after the debriefing was over said that as per the proposed programme, PM Modi would land at Dehradun airport at 7.25 am on Wednesday and would fly to Kedarnath from there. “He is expected to land at 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,” he informed.
A 36- member team of Special Protection Group (SPG) had reached Uttarakhand on Sunday. They had met some senior officials and reviewed the security arrangements at Kedarnath, Dehradun airport and the research institute at Patanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar where the PM would go at the last leg of his tour of the state. As per the recommendations of senior SGP officers, local police are now engaged in making security arrangements for the VVIP visit.
Administrative officers and police officers deputed on the duty took part in the rehearsal, it is learnt. Garhwal Range DIG Pushpak Jyoti, SSP Sweety Aggarwal and police officers were present during the rehearsal held at Dehradun airport. In the same way, Haridwar and Rudrapryag police have also conducted rehearsal along with SPG officers on Tuesday, it is learnt. However, traffic jams ensued along the routes the fleets of VVIPs passed during rehearsal in Haridwar.
later, the senior government officers reviewed security preparedness of PM’s visit and gave necessary instructions to the officers as a part of strengthening the security.
Dehradun SP city Ajay Singh said that in view of PM’s visit, 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.