Karnataka   

Tight security for President’s visit

HAMPI: Hampi will remain closed for visitors and tourists on February 3 in view of the visit by President Pratibha Patil.

Besides beefing up security, the district administration has taken steps to ensure that her visit to various places in Hampi was smooth.

Ms. Patil will be the first President to visit the world famous Hampi in the past two decades.

She will visit five monuments during her three-hour visit.

Governor Rameshwar Thakur and some senior officials would accompany her.

The President will land at the make-shift helipad in the precincts of Hotel Mayur Bhuvaneshwari at Kamalapur at 10.50 a.m.

From there, she will be taken to Virupaksha temple.

After the darshan there, she will visit Ugra Narasimha idol and proceed towards Lotus Mahal, Hazara Rama temple and then to Vijaya Vittala temple, which houses the stone-chariot and musical pillars, according to Arvind Srivastav, Deputy Commissioner.

Amrit Paul, Superintendent of Police, said 150 police officers and 1,500 constables had been deployed in Hampi.

In addition, five anti-sabotage teams, land mine and bomb disposal squad, six platoons of KSRP and 10 units of DAR had been deployed.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Law must serve changing needs of community, says President
Reach safe water to all: Indo-German meet
Rs. 38-cr. proposal for projects in Chitradurga district
Youth cautioned against perils of Western culture
Chitradurga CMC staff end strike
‘Avarice has cast shadow on future of students’
Congress convention on Sunday
Tight security for President’s visit
Dalits’ convention
Courses on television reporting
Cases filed against former Minister
Project to protect indigenous cattle

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu