Hyderabad: Elaborate security arrangements are being made ahead of the three-day Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017 scheduled to begin here from November 28. The event is to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who will lead the US delegation to the Summit.

According to senior police officials of Hyderabad and Cyberabad Commissionerates, security is being stepped up in the city and they have already undertaken security checks around the venue of the summit besides conducting door-to-door searches around the Falaknuma Palace, where a dinner is being organised for the delegates.

"Special Protection Group (SPG) and US Secret Services officials have already visited the city and reviewed security arrangements and they are again coming to monitor and finalise the arrangements," the officials told PTI. Apart from commandos of Greyhounds -- an elite anti-Naxal force and OCTOPUS - elite anti-terrorist force, over 1,500 police personnel will be deployed and another 300 personnel will also be deployed near the Summit's venue located under Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, a senior police official said.

Around 1,500 delegates from across the World are expected to participate in the Summit. Another senior police official attached to Hyderabad Police Commissionerate said over 2,000 police personnel will be deployed around Falaknuma Palace and already door-to-door searches (in around 3,500 houses in surrounding areas of the Palace) has been conducted. "We have sanitised the areas and we have instructed the citizens of the localities not to give shelter to strangers in their houses...the people are supporting the security measures," the official said. (PTI)