Around 12,000 police personnel are being deployed as part of bandobast for the International Yoga Day event scheduled to be held in Visakhapatnam on June 21, wherein Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will take part.

Briefing the media, Commissioner of Police Shankabratha Bagchi said that the five km radius from NTR Statue to The Park Hotel Junction has been declared a no-drone area. If the programme is shifted to Andhra University Grounds, the five-km radius of AU campus area will be a no-flying zone for the drones.