- Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Four hundred and fifty personnel are likely to have dinner with the prime minister and Sanjay Arora, commissioner of Delhi Police.
By: Shubham Ghosh
AFTER meeting leaders from across the world at the G20 summit that was held in New Delhi over the last weekend, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was likely to meet another set of people and this time it is the personnel from Delhi Police who did not leave any stone unturned to make the event successful.
The meeting over dinner is likely to take place this week, NDTV reported.
More than 40,000 officers from Delhi Police were deployed for the summit duty till September 10, its concluding day.
NDTV cited sources in the force saying that Sanjay Arora, commissioner of Delhi Police, sought a list of personnel from each district — from constable to inspectors — who did a commendable job during the two-day summit. The list is expected to feature 450 names and those personnel are likely to have dinner with Modi and Arora at Bharat Mandapam, which served as the summit’s venue.
This is not the first time that the prime minister will acknowledge efforts of people who are involved in a successful event. In May, Modi had felicitated labourers who were involved in the construction of India’s new parliament building that was inaugurated the same month.
Arora recently awarded the police commissioner’s special commendation disc and certificate to officers and personnel for their contribution to G20 leaders’ summit arrangements, an official order stated.
The order, dated September 11, said, “The smooth, professional and precise execution of the colossal G20 arrangement, which saw participation, commitment and contribution from the entire rank and file of Delhi Police, was made possible only by the shared sense of pride and ownership in the overall objectives of the mega arrangement by every participant.”
To ensure highest levels of security and secrecy, the Special Protection Group and Delhi Police personnel used code words for hotels where the leaders and their delegations were staying during the summit.
The ITC Maurya Sheraton, where US president Joe Biden was staying, was codenamed ‘Pandora’ while ‘Samara’ was the name for Shangri-La, where British prime minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy lived during their stay in India.
Code words were also used for places that the top leaders would visit during the summit.
Rajghat, where they visited on Sunday, was called ‘Rudpur’ while Pragati Maidan, where the summit was held, was ‘Niketan’.
(With PTI inputs)
