Though Special Inspector General of Police, Vadodara Range, D.D. Tuteja and District Superintendent of Police, Narmada district, Raju Bhargava were unavailable for comment, as they were on the dam site till late this evening, officers at the Kevadia Colony Police Station said they were preparing for tight bandobast.

Sub-inspector G.M. Solanki, talking to Express Newsline, said that armed police from various districts had started landing there as per the security plan drawn up by senior police officials in Gandhinagar. When asked about the strength of security personnel to be deployed there, he refused to give exact numbers but said that arrangements were ``very very strong'' and ``nobody will be able to break the security ring''.

Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), meanwhile, has been asked by Narmada DSP to provide 30 buses for removing kar sevaks from Kevadia and nearby areas if any of them managed to reach the dam site taking village routes. According to police, kar sevaks would be put into buses and dropped some 50 to 60 kms away so that they could not go to the site of the dam. GSRTC divisional controller N D Patel said that Vadodara (rural) district police had also made a requisition of 15 buses for December 4 for detaining and transporting kar sevaks away from the dam site.

Vadodara police commissioner J Mahapatra said that kar sevaks would not be allowed to pass from the Vadodara city and they would be detained if any of them made any effort to go to the dam site.