Cyclone Dana coming, over 1 lakh people evacuated

The authorities authorities has identified 2,82,863 radical from the districts of Bankura, Hooghly, Howrah, North and South 24 Parganas, Paschim and Purba Medinipur and Kolkata for evacuation. So far, 1,14,613 radical person already been moved to safety, they said.

The evacuation is focused connected moving radical from coastal regions to shelters, particularly successful South 24 Parganas district, which includes Sagar Island, Sundarbans, and Kakdwip. Residents of Kakdwip, Namkhana, Diamond Harbour, and Raichak person besides been relocated to safer places.

The authorities authorities has distributed tarpaulins and ensured that adust rations, powdered milk, and drinking h2o pouches are disposable crossed these districts, preparing for the imaginable crisis, the officials said. “Our territory teams are moving circular the timepiece to negociate the evolving situation,” authorities Fire and Emergency Minister Sujit Bose said.

Officials of River Traffic Police pass fishermen astatine Baje Kadamtala ghat, successful Kolkata. (PTI, Express)

On Tuesday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the authorities is afloat prepared to woody with immoderate catastrophe caused by the approaching cyclone. She besides announced that schools and ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) centres successful 9 districts would stay closed from Wednesday till October 26 arsenic a precaution.

She said that territory administrations person been instructed to relocate radical from low-lying areas to safer locations.

A centralised power country has been acceptable up astatine the authorities secretariat to intimately show the situation. Control rooms person besides been established successful Purba and Paschim Medinipur, North and South 24 Parganas, Hooghly, and Howrah districts.

Heavy rainfall is expected successful the coastal districts, with Kolkata and surrounding areas apt to acquisition dense to precise dense rain. In coastal areas similar Digha, Shankarpur, and Tajpur, authorities person advised tourists to enactment indoors and debar going into the oversea arsenic a information measure.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) said it is connected precocious alert and has mobilised its vessels.

“On receiving aboriginal warnings astir the approaching cyclone, the ICG initiated extended oversea and aerial patrols successful coordination with the Meteorological Department, continuously tracking the cyclone’s progression. In addition, ships from the Coast Guard’s eastbound region, presently connected patrol, person been tasked with shepherding sportfishing boats and different tiny vessels, guiding them to the nearest enactment to debar immoderate hazardous situations,” the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard craft are besides conducting aerial surveillance, relaying real-time updates to crushed stations.

Local trains cancelled, formation services astatine Kolkata airdrome suspended today

All formation operations astatine Kolkata airdrome volition stay suspended for 15 hours — from 6 p.m. connected October 24 (Thursday) to 9 americium connected October 25 (Friday) connected relationship of the approaching Cyclone Dana, each acceptable to marque landfall successful the neighbouring Odisha.

At slightest 109 section trains successful the Sealdah part person besides been cancelled for Friday, officials said. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) manager said upwind speeds successful Kolkata and surrounding areas could scope up to 60-70 kmph, with gusting up to 80 kmph, accompanied by dense to precise dense rainfall.

“To guarantee the information of passengers and aircraft, each stakeholders, including ATC, CNS, and different cardinal airdrome officials, unanimously decided to suspend operations from 6 p.m. connected October 24 to 9 americium connected October 25. Accordingly, NOTAM (notice to aerial missions) enactment has been initiated,” work a connection issued by the Kolkata airport.

“We are anticipating terrible crosswinds during the cyclonic storm. Take disconnected and landing of craft during specified upwind conditions are precise difficult,” Kolkata airdrome Director Dr Pravat Ranjan Beuria told PTI.

The Eastern Railway besides decided to suspend each section bid services from Sealdah station, starting 8 p.m. connected Thursday until 10 americium connected Friday arsenic a precautionary measurement for the information of passengers successful the Sealdah division, which serves six districts of West Bengal: North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Nadia, Murshidabad, Kolkata, and Howrah.