Nagpur: Tight security is in place for the visit of President Ramnath Kovind who is arriving in Nagpur on Saturday, April 23 to grace the function organised by Indian Institute of Management– Nagpur (IIM-N).
As per reports, the President will inaugurate the new campus of IIM-N at MIHAN. This will be his first visit to Nagpur after becoming the President of India.
A joint team of Nagpur police and SPG commandos reviewed the security arrangements. For bandobast, around 4000 security personnel including two companies of SRPF will be deployed. On Wednesday, the Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar held a meeting with high officials and discussed the security plan.
According to reports, 12 DCPs, 11 ACPs, 70-80 Police Inspectors, around 180 APIs, and 3000 police personnel would be deployed for bandobast duty during the visit of the First Citizen of India. CCTV cameras would keep an on movement of people on the routes taken by the President.
Nagpur was added to the list of IIMs in the country during the tenure of Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Initially, it started functioning from the premises of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) with IIM, Ahmedabad, as its mentor. Shifting of IIM-N to its own campus got delayed for various reasons, Covid-19 pandemic being one of them.
