Team News Riveting
Raipur, July 4
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Tuesday night chaired a high-level meeting convened to take stock of security arrangements for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit.
The Prime Minister is arriving in the state capital on July 7. According to the preliminary schedule, Modi will land at Swami Vivekanand airport in Raipur and fly to science college ground in Indian Air Force (IAF) choppers.
Baghel talked to the senior officials and reviewed the arrangement for the Prime Minister’s Chhattisgarh visit. The Chief Minister directed the officials to make all the required arrangements for the security.
Besides Chief Secretary Amitabh Jain, Director General of Police Ashok Juneja, Additional Chief Secretary Subrat Sahoo and top officials were present in the meeting.
The Prime Minister will be spending two hours in Chhattisgarh. He will address a public meeting in the science college ground that is also linked with kick-starting BJP’s election campaign in the state that goes to the polls later in the year. The BJP has claimed an attendance of 200,000 people in the meeting.
Though it could not be officially verified, the Prime Minister is likely to flag off a mainline electric multiple unit train (MEMU) between Raipur and Naya Raipur. Besides inaugurating Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bhilai of Durg district.
The Prime Minister will also inaugurate the Bilaspur-Pathrapali project of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). Built at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore, the 52 km Bilaspur-Pathrapali project has four lanes.
All the programmes will be conducted virtually from the Chhattisgarh capital.
