Security tightened for India-Australia T20 match at Uppal today

The Rachakonda police commissioner on Thursday issued a notification on the arrangements for the T-20 match between India and Australia scheduled to be held from 7pm on Friday at Uppal's Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. As many as 1800 police personnel traffic, law and order, security, Octopus, special branch, armed component, Octopus, central crime station as well as two fire tenders with a firefighting squad will be deployed as part of security arrangments.

While 56 CCTV cameras have also been installed to beef up security in and around the stadium, the department has also deployed separate SHE teams for the safety of women spectators as well as a vendor supervising team to ensure that vendors sell eatables at prices prescribed by the authorities.

As a part of safety measures, spectators will not be allowed to carry cigarettes, electronic items, sharp metal objects, banners, writing pens, binoculars, water bott les, bags and outside eatables into the



stadium. However, national flags can be carried inside but without any sticks or sharp objects to display it.

According to the cops, signage boards have been erected at different places to guide spectators to the stadium and to ensure smooth flow of traffic before and after the match, provisions have been made for parking of 9,150 vehicles, including 5,150 two wheelers and 4,000 four-wheelers. Parking arrangements have been made for car pass holders inside the stadium, at APIIC grounds and in private open land provided by the department. Two-wheelers will be allowed to park in parking-B at the stadium and on either side of the Uppal-Habsiguda and Ramanthapur main roads. If need be, two-wheelers will also be allowed to park on both sides of the service road leading to Genpact as well as the Velugu Gutta temple road.

However, heavy goods vehicles coming from LB Nagar and Warangal will not be allowed towards Habsiguda during the match and will be diverted accordingly .