All eyes are set on the State capital which is ready to roll out red carpet welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit amid tight security at every point on routes leading to Prabhat Tara Ground. Capital Ranchi although for only a day will be turned into a fortress for Modi as he gifts the poll-bound State a slew of developmental projects and will address a huge gathering at the ground.
This is the first visit of Modi to Jharkhand after he became the Prime Minister.The district administration gave final touch to the preparations for the prime minister’s visit and in a last minute meeting conducted on Wednesday district officials were apprised of their responsibility and were asked to adhere to the job assigned to them. The district administration has marked routes for people’s convenience and several checkpoints have been created for vehicles entering the city. “Preparations are complete. Routes for people coming to the rally have been identified. We have made watch towers in the city and special attention has been given to high rises,” said Deputy Commissioner Vinay Kumar Choubey.
As many as 70 magistrates and 3,000 policemen will be deployed in the city which has been divided into 11 zones, including the super sensitive zone at the ground where every entrant will be required to go through door-frame-metal-detector (DFMD) gates installed at four points of entry to the ground.
As many as 40 DFMD gates have been installed at the venue of the programme and CCTVs will constantly record activities of the crowd. Movement near the programme venue will be restricted on the day as nine barricading have been created around the venue. Vehicles will not be allowed beyond Shaheed Maidan, Mausibari, High Court gate, North-East and South-West gates of JSCA stadium, St Thomas School, Shalimar Bazaar, Nehru Stadium and Sakhua Maidan in Dhurwa. Traffic police have identified separate routes for people of the city and for those who are arriving from other parts of Jharkhand to attend the Modi’s programme.
Keeping in view the tide of Modi supporters that will inundate Ranchi the administration has asked schools to either close or cut the school time short and finish business by 11am as traffic restrictions will come into effect at 11:25am, the time of arrival of PM Modi.
“We don’t want children to get stuck in traffic so we have asked them (schools) to either declare holiday or restrict school timing upto 11am,” pointed out the DC.After landing at Ranchi Modi will head to Prabhat Tara Ground to inaugurate largest transmission grid constructed at Bero. According to a release by the Press Information Bureau, Modi will inaugurate the 765 KV Ranchi-Dharamjaygarh-Sipat Inter-Regional Transmission line in Ranchi.
The 392 km line is the first 765KV inter-regional link between Eastern Region and Western Region as part of transmission scheme associated with Damodar Valley Corporation generation projects to evacuate/transfer power from Eastern Region to the Western Region and the substations are built in Ranchi and Dharamjaygarh in Chhattisgarh.
He will also lay the foundation stone of a new incubation facility at STPI centre in Ranchi. He will also launch the Centre’s ‘National Digital literacy Mission’ which aims at making 10 lakh Indian citizens digitally literate. The Prime Minister will also be laying the foundation stone of National Institute of Electronics and IT Centre in a bid to increase formal and non-formal training facilities in ICT.