US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama's Mumbai visit
Press Trust of India, Updated: November 03, 2010 08:25 IST
(WE NEED TO DO COMPARITIVE STUDIES ABOUT EARLIER AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT IN INDIA, THOUGH THIS IS TRUE THAT MR OBAMA ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT POOR,NEEDY,ECONOMIC GROWTH,JOBS,EMPLOYMENT,PEACE!!..HE IS A FOLLOWER OF GANDHI,A NOBLE PRIZE WINNER FOR PEACE!!...WITH SUCH VIEWS AND BACKGROUND, DO HE NEED TO SPEND SO MUCH WHILE VISITING TO A DEVOLOPING COUNTRY???
HE IS A PRESIDENT OF WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL OLDEST DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY,HE ALWAYS NEED TO REMEMBER THOSE POOR WHO DON'T GET FOOD ONCE A DAY,DON'T HAVE BASIC AMENITIES....WHO LIVE IN INHUMAN CONDITIONS!!!....IF HE DOES THAT,WHICH WE BELIEVE HE DOES,THEN REST OF THE THINGS -HE WILL DO AUTOMATICALLY.
GOOD WISHES TO INDIA,MANMOHAN SINGHJI,AMERICA AND OBAMAJI!!!
WE ALL WELCOME YOU,YOUR GRACIOUS WIFE MICHELLE AND YOUR TEAM OF DELEGATIONS-BEUROCRATS,DIPLOMATS,PRESS,CHEFS ETC HERE IN INDIA...VIBHA)
(Obama, the sixth US President to visit India and the third in 10 years, arrived here along with his wife Michelle, cabinet colleagues, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and 200 business leaders, the largest such delegation ever. ...GOOD WISHES AND WARM WELCOME TO ALL!!!...VIBHA)
Mumbai: The US would be spending a whopping $200 million (Rs 900 crore approx) per day on President Barack Obama's visit to the city.
"The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit," a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said.
About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.
"Except for personnel providing immediate security to the President, the US officials may not be allowed to carry weapons. The state police is competent to take care of the security measures and they would be piloting the Presidential convoy," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Navy and Air Force has been asked by the state government to intensify patrolling along the Mumbai coastline and its airspace during Obama's stay. The city's airspace will be closed half-an-hour before the President's arrival for all aircraft barring those carrying the US delegation.
The personnel from SRPF, Force One, besides the NSG contingent stationed here would be roped in for the President's security, the official said.
The area from Hotel Taj, where Obama and his wife Michelle would stay, to Shikra helipad in Colaba would be cordoned off completely during the movement of the President.
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