Kolkata: The West Bengal Chief Minister held a high-level meeting with all the District Magistrates and Disaster Management officials on Cyc...
Kolkata: The West Bengal Chief Minister held a high-level meeting with all the District Magistrates and Disaster Management officials on Cyclone Yaas on Sunday.
She is likely to spend the nights of May 25 and 26 and monitor the situation
24/7, overseeing arrangements and keeping contact with the local
administrations.
A depression will form over East Central Bay of Bengal within May 23 and by May
24 it will intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and a landfall is likely
on the West Bengal coast with wind speed up to 120-160kmph.
The CM tweeted on Sunday saying, “I have extensively reviewed the disaster management
preparedness with regard to the impending Yaas cyclone today afternoon with all
senior officers of relevant Central & State agencies along with DMs and
SPs. All officials have been advised integrated command, advance planning &
early evacuation from coastal & riverine areas to rescue shelters including
cyclone & flood shelters, and to conduct relief and rehabilitation
operations at the earliest.
People are being evacuated from the coastal areas of Diamond Harbour,
Sunderbans, Digha, Deganga, Hingalganj and Swarupnagar areas with DMs and the police
urging people to take shelter in concrete buildings. Fishermen have been asked to
come back by May 23 morning. The DMs also monitored the dams in the coastal
areas to avoid any untoward incident. Notably, 115 disaster management teams
are made across West Bengal.
According to the Indian Meteorological Centre’s Bhubaneswar office, the low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has become a well-marked system over the east-central Bay of Bengal. The well-marked low pressure is very likely to
concentrate into a depression during the next 12 hours, IMD said.
“It is very likely to move north-northwestwards and intensify into a cyclonic storm
by May 24. During the subsequent 24 hours, it would further intensify
into a very severe cyclonic storm,” the Met Dpt stated.
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