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| PM's Visit: Security grid enhanced across Rajouri, locals face heat | | | Early Times Report
Rajouri , Dec 11: Barely 40 hours left for Prime Minister Narendra Modi' scheduled public rally and the security agencies have put their all out efforts to put the security grid for fool proof arrangement but it has inhabitants of old and new Rajouri city to face the heat due to strict naka checking. Police have asked locals to adhere traffic restrictions to avoid the inconvenience.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally at New Bus Stand ground scheduled for December 13 and the road leading to New Bus Stand which is a life line of Rajouri city has been restricted for the civilians and vehicular movement.
Pertinently about 90 percent passenger, domestic as well as trucks carrying goods enter the city from Saialni Bridge in vicinity of New Bus Stand and the enhanced checking of vehicles is becoming time consuming while residents in these areas are also finding very difficult to enter the city from other sides and today authorities witnessed a huge traffic jam at main Abdullah bridge connecting old city, main bus stand with Gujjarmandi Chowk.As this locality houses majority of business and commercial centres while most of the banks and government offices including offices DIG , , Deputy Commissioner and SSP too are situated in the area where people have to visit now and then for their official works but now they are facing heat of the enhanced security checkup.
Following Arnia and serial attacks in Valley, the security forces were put on heightened alert and security personnel have been deployed in the entire city and its adjoining areas keeping in view Modi's maiden rally in the once militancy infested district of Jammu region.
"Random frisking of pedestrians and checking of vehicles has also added miseries in the routine activities of the civilians, some locals lamented. And those who will be travelling between Poonch and Jammu have to cover 2 kilometers on feet between army ground and Alfa TCP for their further journeys to their destinations. The New Bus Stand where work is underway to host Prime Minister's rally has been cordoned off by the personnel of paramilitary forces and Rajouri police and was handed over to the team of Special Protection Group (SPG) camping in the city for the security of the Prime Minister. In a press briefing today evening Dr Haseeb Mughal, SSP, Rajouri have appealed to the inhabitants to remove their private vehicles/cars from the areas situated near the rally venue including Saialni bridge, police station , Panja chowk, Gujjarmandi, Abdullha bridge etc by or before Thursday afternoon.
"The passenger/private vehicles on Jammu -Poonch high way will not be allowed after 7 am on December 13 ahead of Alfa TCP, Army Ground near Dudhadhari temple, DIET complex (jawaharNagar) and Darhali bridge, he informed said.
"People will be allowed to reach the rally venue on feet from these points after proper frisking and security check-up," said SSP. Reliable sources said that the entire forest area on left side of the New Bus Stand has been searched by the security forces and air surveillance will also be in force before and during PM's address.
Meantime about 48 families of rag pickers belong to various states of the country and living in the temporary 'Zhugis' o the corner of New Bus Stand, those who were associated with vehicle repairs business have been asked to leave the area by the district administration besides this two flood victims families who were provided tented accommodation by the district administration at New Bus Stand too have been shifted to new place. |
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