India
Details of US President Barack Obama's schedule during his India visit
Updated : Apr 26, 2015, 06:54 PM IST
The country is gearing up to welcome US President Barack on the Republic Day. Obama will travel to New Delhi later this week and is the first US President to witness the Republic Day Parade in India.
The following the likely schedule planned for Obama's visit on January 25th, 2015.
January 25, 2015
4:45 am: Arrival at Delhi International Airport
5:30 to 9:10am: Stay at hotel
10:10 am: Arrival at Rashtrapati Bhawan
10:40 am: Gandhi Samadhi
11:20 am: Hyderabad House bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi
1:50 pm: PM Modi and Obama media statements
2:20 pm: Departure for hotel
7:10pm: President house banquet
January 26th, 2015
9:10 am: Depart from the hotel
9:25 am: Arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan
10 am to noon- Attend the Republic Day parade and return to Rashtrapati Bhavan
12:40 to 3:10 pm: Possible window for CEO summit
3:45 pm: President reception
4:45 pm: Return to the hotel
5:45 pm: CEO roundtable at Maurya with PM Narendra Modi
6:50 to 7:20pm- Obama speech at CEO summit
7:25pm: Back to the hotel and orivate dinner with PM Modi likely
January 27th, 2015
10:10 am: Leave hotel
10:40 am: Townhall (sirifort) with audience of 2000 people
12:20 to 1:30 pm: Lunch at hotel
3:05 to 4:05 pm: Tour of Taj Mahal in Agra
4:35pm: Back to Palam in Delhi
5:50pm: Departure for airport
A seven-layer security ring will be thrown around the VVIP enclosure on Rajpath for the Republic Day parade to be witnessed by US President Barack Obama and the airspace over the area would be monitored by a radar to be specially set up.
This will form part of the planned unprecedented ground-to-air security drill that will turn the national capital into an impregnable fortress during the visit of Obama as Chief Guest for the main Republic Day celebrations on January 26--the first by any American President.
A multi-agency control room will monitor the surveillance operations in every area of the national capital which has been put on the highest alert because of the visit of the US President. Obama is arriving here on January 25 on a three-day visit to the country.
At least 10,000 paramilitary troops will be deployed along with the 80,000-strong Delhi Police to ensure fool-proof security in and around Rajpath -- the main venue.