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Southern States - Tamil Nadu

Security stepped up for CM's Tirupur visit

By Our Staff Reporter

Coimbatore June 17. Security in and around Tirupur has been stepped up for the June 20 visit to the hosiery town by the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, for laying the foundation stone for the New Tiruppur Area Development Corporation water supply scheme.

The Superintendent of Police, Coimbatore Rura, R. Dhinakaran, said nearly 2000 police personnel would be deployed.

A bandobust scheme had been drawn up by the Inspector-General(Western Zone), Narinder Pal Singh.

The Chief Minister would arrive at Tirupur by a state-helicopter around noon and would be there for about four hours.

She would distribute welfare aids to the poor, besides laying the foundation stone for development works in the district and dedicating the new Singanallur bus stand.

A total of five Superintendents of Police from various districts were being drafted, in addition to 5 ADSPs, 30 DSPs, 70 inspectors.

In the wake of threat perceptions, separate teams were already pressed into intelligence gathering. Besides posting of armed pickets at all arterial road junctions and patrolling of the town, vehicle checks and lodge checks would be held at Tirupur and its peripheral areas.

Traffic arrangements were being made with care to ensure that normal life was not affected at Tirupur. Three DSPs would be in charge of traffic arrangements and the traffic on the Tiruppur - Mangalam road would witness minor diversions.

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