ADDITIONAL Director General of Police for Security, RK Tiwari said the Union government had recently sanctioned the proposal of the state government for recruitment of 450 security personnel to be deployed, specially for Gyanwapi complex security.
“The Union government has approved the proposal of state government, seeking recruitment of 450 security personnel and some sophisticated equipment for the adequate security of complex. The proposal had been forwarded to the government after incident of terrorist strike in Ayodhya,” he said.
Talking to media persons on Wednesday, the ADG claimed that the security arrangement was up to mark here. He claimed that the security arrangement of Gyanwapi complex was perfect. Locals and devotees, visiting here have to comply with some restrictions imposed by the district administration in the wake of adequate security of this complex.
He said, “The motto of administration is not to cause any kind of inconvenience to the visiting devotees and locals but some restrictions have been imposed to check the entry of suspected persons and terrorists in the complex. It is a duty of both cops and public to ensure the security of this sensitive complex.”
Earlier, he inspected the sensitive Gyanwapi complex in the morning.
The ADG reached the complex at 10 am and minutely inspected each and every corner of the complex from the security point of view for nearly two hours.
Earlier, he inspected the sensitive Gyanwapi complex in the morning.
The ADG reached the complex at 10 am and minutely inspected each and every corner of the complex from the security point of view for nearly two hours.
He also got acquainted with the functioning of equipment. He talked to the officials and jawans of police, CRPF and PAC regarding their problems and suggestions.
It is believed that the ADG during the surprise mock drill soon after his arrival here, found some lapse of proper co-ordination between jawans of CRPF and police in the wake of the terrorist attack.
The ADG held a meeting with high officials of police, PAC, CRPF and intelligence department over the security of Gyanwapi complex.
Prominent amongst those officials, who participated in the meeting, included, IG CRPF, Vikram Saigal, IG PAC, Shailja Kant Mishra, DIG Security, RP Singh, Joint Director IB, Alok Joshi (Lucknow), Joint Director IB (Varanasi), Amitabh Ranjan, IG for Varanasi zone, KL Meena, DIG for Varanasi range, RN Yadav, DM, Rajiv Agrawal and SSP, Dr GK Goswami.