FOOLPROOF ARRANGEMENTS: An explosive detection squad scanning the approach road to Bandlapalli with the help of electronic gadgets and a sniffer dog on Monday.

BANDLAPALLI (ANANTAPUR DT.): Arrangements for the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to this small village in Narapala mandal for launching the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on February 2 are in a full swing, as only two are left for the eventful occasion.

District and State Government officials are supervising the preparations round the clock as per the specifications of the Special Protection Group, a team of which is already camping here. The SPG officials have struck down the proposal of the district officials to make use of the school building outside the village as the dais for public meeting.

But, the SPG officials have asked the district administration to get a dais erected behind the school building. About 15 acres of endowment land is being used for the public meeting and other programmes to be participated by the Prime Minister, UPA Chairperson, Chief Minister, Union Minister for Rural Development and others.

The itinerary

According to the tour schedule received by the district administration from the Prime Minister's Office on Sunday, the Prime Minister will leave Delhi airport by a special IAF Boeing at 9 a.m. on February 2 and reach Puttaparthi airport in the district at 11.30 a.m.

He will leave Puttaparthi airport for Bandlapalli by MI-8 helicopter at 11.35 a.m. and reach the village helipad at 12.05 p.m. The Prime Minister will address a public meeting from 12.10 p.m. to 1.20 p.m. He will visit an exhibition on Andhra Pradesh's preparedness to implement APREG Scheme from 1.25 p.m. to 1.35 p.m. The Prime Minister will interact with gram panchayat members and self-help groups on EGS from 1.35 p.m. to 1.50 p.m. He will attend a gram sabha in the village where the sarpanch will give a presentation on gram panchayat EGS plan from 1.50 p.m. to 2.10 p.m. He will have lunch with the village community from 2.10 p.m. to 3 p.m.

He will leave Bandlapalli for Puttaparthi at 3.05 p.m. and reach there by 3.35 p.m. The Prime Minister will leave for Delhi at 3.40 p.m. and will reach there by 6.10 p.m.

The 3 km approach road to the village from the Dharmavaram-Tadipatri road, which had potholes all over just four days back, was given a new shape by filling the potholes with gravel, levelling and widening it. Several earthmovers and labourers have been engaged for levelling the public meeting place filled with boulders here and there.

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