Anantapur under security blanket for I-Day functions
Entry into stadium is restricted due to limited seating.
Anantapur: Anantapur city has been put under a security blanket as it is hosting the state- level celebrations of India's 70th Independence Day at Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy stadium here. Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, who was to have arrived here a day prior to the function, has postponed it to Monday morning.
In view of this, traffic will be restricted between the helipad, R&B Guest House and the stadium. Official sources said that Mr Naidu would arrive at Bengaluru International Airport by 6 am from Gannavaram and land at the helipad near Shilparamam on the outskirts of Anantapur's Gooty Road by 6.55 am.
He will then be driven to the R&B Guest House where he will be till 8.30 am.
Mr Naidu is scheduled to arrive at the Police Training College at 8.57 am and take part in Independence Day celebrations and leave for Puttaparthi, reaching Gannavaram Airport by special aircraft. The CM will take part in a three-hour-long programme.
While all three destinations are located at different ends of the city, the police authorities said that traffic would be restricted till afternoon on connected roads. No vehicles will be permitted on the flyover till the chief minister's departure. DSP Mallikaruna Varma said that traffic would be diverted from other routes.
Rayalaseema IG Sridhar Rao said that the command control of CCS station would monitor the city and surrounding areas with CC cameras.