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There are 851 alleviation camps and shelters successful the state, the Chief Minister said. (Express photograph by Partha Paul)
Ahead of Cyclone Dana’s landfall successful neighbouring Odisha Thursday midnight, the authorities medication successful West Bengal was racing against clip to evacuate radical and bring them to harmless shelters with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee monitoring the concern from the Kolkata power room.
By precocious Thursday evening, authorities officials said the evacuation process has been completed with implicit 3.5 lakh radical brought to shelters successful 8 districts of the state, including Kolkata, Howrah, Purba Medinipur, Paschim Medinipur, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Bankura and Hooghly.
By Thursday evening, the cyclonic storm, located 150 km southeast of Paradip (Odisha) and 250 km south-southeast of Sagar Island (West Bengal), approached towards the subcontinent.
Chief Minister Banerjee said the authorities medication has identified much than 3.5 lakh radical for evacuation from low-lying areas. “For evacuation from low-lying areas, we person identified a full of 356,941 people… There are 851 alleviation camps and shelters… I volition inquire radical not to panic and alternatively support vigil,” the CM said.
Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty were besides overseeing the evacuation and alleviation operations. The authorities had deployed a ample contingent of the constabulary force, territory medication officials, catastrophe absorption officials, 22 companies of NDRF and SDRF were deployed. The coastal areas were enactment connected precocious alert.
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