Bhubaneswar/Cuttack: Police on Thursday organised a security mock drill ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit on Saturday.

Police commissioner Y.B. Khurania said: "We will follow the standard operating procedure. There will be heavy deployment of police at the airport, helipad and the meeting place." The air force also conducted a mock drill with two choppers that landed at Naraj and the lower part of the Bali yatra field in Cuttack.

To fine-tune security arrangements for Modi's rally, the district administration has held a meeting with a team of Special Protection Group (SPG).

A seven-member SPG team arrived here on Wednesday to make preparations ahead of Modi's visit to address a public meeting at Killa Maidan to mark the completion of four years of his government at the Centre.

The SPG team, led by AIG Sanjay Chauhan, later reviewed the arrangements at the preparatory meeting in which police officers and officials of all the related departments, including Cuttack Municipal Corporation, took part.

A senior cop said 98 platoons of cops would be deployed for the PM's rally.

Modi is scheduled to arrive in Bhubaneswar around 3.25pm on Saturday and will travel to Cuttack by helicopter. From the helipad at Naraj, the PM's cavalcade will move towards the venue.

"Barricades will be set up on both sides of the road from Naraj to Killa Maidan and to the Circuit House near Mata Matha on the Ring Road," said Cuttack collector Sushanta Mohapatra.