Over 5,000 police personnel to be deployed in Madurai for PM Modi’s two-day visit

Over 5,000 police deployed for PM Modi's Madurai visit; traffic diversions in place for VVIP convoy movement.

Over 5,000 policemen will be deployed for the two-day visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Madurai, beginning Tuesday, February 27, 2024. 

Additional Director General of Police (Armed Police), H.M. Jayaraman, is camping in the district to oversee security arrangements. Inspector General of Police, South Zone, N. Kannan, and Commissioner of Police, J. Loganathan, are coordinating the bandobust, for which 11 officers of the rank of Superintendent of Police have been drawn from various parts of the State. 

The Prime Minister will inaugurate the Digital Mobility Initiative for Automotive MSMEs to be held at the premises of a school premises, in suburban Veerapanchan, on Tuesday evening. 

Mr. Modi is scheduled to arrive in Madurai by a special chopper from Palladam at 5 p.m., and, after participating in the MSME programme, will proceed to The Gateway Hotel in Pasumalai. After an overnight stay there, he will fly from Madurai airport to Thoothukudi on Wednesday (February 28) morning. 

The district administration has the banned flying of drones in view of the VVIP visit, on these two days. 

Meanwhile, the Madurai district police have announced traffic diversions on Uthangudi-Kappalur Ring Road, as this stretch will be used for the movement of the Prime Minister’s convoy on both days. 

While the movement of heavy vehicles will be banned on the VVIP route from Tuesday (February 27) morning onwards, light vehicles would be prohibited on that route from Tuesday afternoon.