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Dark unreality looms implicit Kolkata arsenic cyclone Dana approaches. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)
Evacuating aged and dilapidated buildings, monitoring energy lines and mounting up a 24-hour power country with exigency teams connected standby – arsenic Cyclonic tempest Dana continues to tube towards coastal Odisha and West Bengal, Kolkata braces for its impact.
According to officials, the metropolis is keeping successful caput the thousands of aged and dilapidated houses that enactment the metropolis portion preparing itself. The metropolis besides saw implicit 5,000 trees uprooted during the Cyclone Amphan that deed Bengal successful 2020, and is keeping effect teams ready.
Dana, a terrible cyclonic storm, is expected to transverse the coastline of West Bengal and Odisha and marque landfall successful Bhitarkanika and Dhamara (Odisha) packing upwind speeds of 100 to 110 KMPH gusting 120 KMPH. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has besides predicted dense rainfall successful parts of Odisha and Bengal, including Kolkata.
“We are already monitoring energy lines. Special teams volition beryllium deployed astatine each borough bureau and volition wide immoderate fallen trees. The 79 pumping stations successful the metropolis person 450 pumps, each of which volition enactment unfastened the full of Thursday night. We are afloat acceptable to look this disaster,” said Kolkata politician and West Bengal’s municipality improvement curate Firhad Hakim.
The KMC has already cancelled the leaves of officials and workers of its exigency departments. They are besides monitoring the metropolis utilizing CCTVs.
“There are thousands of aged and dilapidated houses successful Kolkata, immoderate of which person been declared ‘dangerous’ by the KMC. People person been evacuated from specified houses. We are besides co-ordination with the Kolkata Police,” said a highly-placed KMC official.
Quick effect KMC teams are keeping tree-cutting machines ready. To forestall incidents of electrocution, the civic assemblage volition support trident lights turned off, and volition besides perpetually show high-mast thoroughfare lights crossed the city.
“We person seen incidents of electrocution owed to abbreviated circuits from trident lights during cyclones,” a KMC authoritative said.
KMC’s sewerage and drainage section is besides connected precocious alert. Mayor assembly subordinate Tarak Singh, who’s successful complaint of the department, said further h2o pumps person been installed successful low-lying areas to wide immoderate h2o logging.
“Workers person been told to wide manholes to fto h2o walk swiftly,” helium said.
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