For PM Modi's First Independence Day Speech, Drones and CCTVs For Security
A security personnel stands guard at the historic Red Fort on the eve of Independence Day (PTI photo)
Here is your 10-point cheatsheet:
- The entire 10-kilometre route that the PM will travel tomorrow morning from his 7 Race Course Road residence to the Red Fort and back will be under CCTV surveillance. This is unprecedented.
- Intelligence agencies have sounded a high alert for the city on Independence Day and the long day weekend.
- Apart from about 500 CCTV cameras along Mr Modi's route, about 200 cameras will be placed inside Red Fort.
- Unmanned aerial vehicles or drones will also be used for close surveillance across the route and around the Red Fort.
- The Air Force will be on the ready for any emergency.
- Snipers and anti-aircraft guns will be stationed in about 350 high-rise buildings in the Red Fort area.
- An area of three kilometres all around the Red Fort is being completely sanitized. (Also read: Special Dog Squads to Sanitise Independence Day Venues)
- Security personnel will be posted at every corner within an eight-kilometre radius around the Red Fort.
- Delhi Police has asked the Centre for much more additional deployment of security personnel than last year. (Security Stepped up for I-Day in National Capital)
- Sources said Mr Modi did not want the bullet proof glass from behind which the Prime Minister addresses the nation, but security agencies reportedly advised against removing it. (Also Read: For PM's Independence Day Speech, No Notes, No Umbrellas For Rain)