During her visit to Hyderabad to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) later this month US President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump will experience the best hospitality, the colourful and diverse culture and the rich heritage.
Ivanka, who along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will attend the inaugural session of the Summit on November 28 will attend a banquet next day the historic Golkonda Fort.
With the Telangana Chief Minister deciding to host a grand gala cultural programme and dinner for all the delegates of the GES at the Golkonda Fort, a team of officials from the Hyderabad City Police, traffic police, departments of tourism and transport visited the venue and assessed the available facilities.
The team headed by the deputy commissioner of police A Venkateshwara Rao and deputy commissioner of police (Trffic) AV Ranganath held a two hour long meeting at the Fort and finalized the arrangements.
On November 28 Ivanka will attend a dinner at another magnificent historic landmark of the city the Falaknuma Palace, now a five star hotel Taj Falaknuma. The dinner at Falaknuma was being hosted by the Prime Miniser Narendra Modi in the honor of Ivanka Trump.
The security arrangements were being tightened around both the venues. While the Golkonda Fort will be closed two days ahead of the dinner for the tourists, police has started going through the areas in the close vicinity of the Taj Falaknuma Hotel and has instructed the people that except the locals no one should stay in the area. The people have also been asked to watch out for any suspicious movement of any outsiders.
Meanwhile the US Security Service personnel will arrive in the city of Monday to assess the security arrangements and preparations for the summit. The US personnel will go around the GES venue at the Hyderabad International Convention Center, Falaknuma Palace and the Golkonda Fort and only after their green signal, her program will be finalized.
Police sources said that the question of who can keep the fire arms inside the venue has become the point of contention between the authorities of India and the United States, the joint hosts of the event. While the American officials were insisting that no body other than the US security services personnel can keep the fire arms in the venue of the program of Ivanka Trump, the Special Protection Group (SPG) officials have made it clear that they were duty bound to keep the fire arms as part of their responsibility to protect the Prime Minister. The issue was likely to be resolved during the visit of the US officials next week.
Meanwhile brisk work was progressing to beautify the roads and pavements in Hyderabad specially on the routes to be taken by the delegates of the GES in the Hitech City and other areas. The road to Falaknuma and Golkonda Road was also being recarpeted to remove the potholes.
Historic Charminar, the symbol of Hyderabad and surrounding area was also getting a facelift as many of the delegates were likely to visit the 16th century monument of Qutub Shahi era. The long pending pedestrianisation of area around Charminar has picked up the pace and a fresh stone pavement was being built. The four arches on the road leading to Charminar were also being given a facelift.