KOLHAPUR: The district administration along with the police are set to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is visiting the city on Saturday to attend the celebrations to mark 75 years of a local Marathi daily. The security in the city has been beefed up on the backdrop of his visit.
The programme will be organised at Police Parade ground on Saturday afternoon. The civic administration has taken up levelling of roads, plugging potholes and painting of traffic signs on the roads on which the prime minister’s convoy will pass.
Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union railway minster Suresh Prabhu will also attend the programme.
This is Modi’s second visit to the city. He had visited Kolhapur to address a political rally during the state assembly elections in October last year.
Following the bomb blast in Bengaluru on December 28, the security has been beefed up in the city with the special protection group (SPG) and state police continuously patrolling the route on which the prime minister Modi pass. He is expected to reach Kolhapur airport around 1 pm and will leave the city by 2 pm.
One superintendent of police (SP), six additional SPs, 16 deputy SPs, 38 police inspectors, 121 sub-inspectors and 2,173 constables will be on duty from 7 am on Saturday. Besides, four teams of bomb detection and disposal squad, striking force, dog squad and around 100 constables of State Reserve Police will also be on duty. Additional police force from neighbouring Sangli, Satara and Solapur districts has been roped for the purpose.
Around 800 policemen will take charge of the 7-km road from Kolhapur airport to the venue of the programme.
TOI | Jan 3, 2015
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