New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) Several Delhi police stations, booths and pickets along the routes of foreign delegations during the G20 summit here later this year are to be relocated or close to their accommodation. , officials said Saturday.
More than 50 police stations and around 30 police pickets and booths in New Delhi and South West District will be repositioned, they said. The project includes replacement or renovation of damaged boards, gates and boundary walls.
In an order approved by Delhi Police Commissioner Sanjay Arora, DCP (GM, Operation), Delhi Police Housing Corporation Limited, has been nominated as the nodal officer for the scheme.
“He will find out the building infrastructure, booths picket and kiosks near the places where the delegates stay and the temporary places where they are going and find out the demands of the concerned local police, traffic police and other units,” the order added.
Officials said a survey was conducted on police infrastructure and booths that needed to be renovated.
“These are the infrastructures along the routes of foreign delegations coming to attend the G20 summit. The routes to be taken are mostly under the Delhi Police’s New Delhi and South West districts,” said a senior officer.
The G20 or Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major developed and developing economies. The next G20 Leaders’ Summit is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10. PTI AMP ABH SZM
