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Officials of the River Traffic Police and Disaster Management Group (DMG) marque announcements connected the banks of the Hooghly stream up of Cyclone 'Dana' landfall, successful Kolkata, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. (PTI Photo)
With cyclone ‘Dana’ apt to marque a landfall betwixt Bhitarkanika and Dhamra tonight, astir 4 lakh radical were evacuated to cyclone shelters portion Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has asked territory administrations to implicit the evacuation process by 11 am.
“The authorities authorities is afloat prepared to tackle immoderate concern arises. I impulse radical not to panic. You are successful harmless hands. We person been intimately monitoring the concern with the assistance of aggregate systems,” Majhi told mediapersons aft reviewing the situation.
“The authorities has identified implicit 3,000 susceptible locations (villages) crossed 14 districts, chiefly on the coastal belt, and started evacuation procedures. As galore arsenic 10,60,336 radical are apt to beryllium evacuated earlier Cyclone Dana makes landfall,” Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari said.
Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore districts are expected to look the maximum interaction of the cyclone, which is apt to scope upwind velocity of 100-120 kmph, including dense to precise dense rainfall. Several different coastal and interior districts are besides expected to person rainfall connected Thursday and Friday, the IMD predicted.
With elder IAS officers monitoring the situation, the Odisha authorities has assigned 9 districts to 9 ministers to supervise alleviation and rescue activities connected the ground.
The Met bureau has predicted tempest surge of astir 1 metre (above the astronomical tide) during the landfall, resulting successful inundation of low-lying areas successful Kendrapara, Bhadrak and Balasore districts.
With the landfall predicted to beryllium adjacent Bhitarkanika, the second-largest mangrove ecosystem aft the Sundarbans, Sudarshan Gopinath Jadhav, DFO, mangrove wildlife division, Rajnagar said, “If the h2o level increases, determination are chances that the crocodiles whitethorn determination to quality settlements. We person formed 2 teams, each comprising 7 persons, and provided them instrumentality to rescue crocodiles. Five different teams person besides been formed for rescue of snakes from quality habitations.”
The Orissa HC has announced closure connected Thursday and Friday and declared November 30 and December 7 (both Saturdays) arsenic moving days.
The preliminary trial of the Odisha civilian work exam, 2023, which was scheduled to beryllium held connected October 27, has been postponed successful presumption of Cyclone Dana, according to a announcement issued by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC). A caller day volition beryllium notified aft 7 days.
– With PTI inputs
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