With wind speed of 100-120 kmph, cyclone Dana to make landfall near Odisha’s Bhitarkanika and Dhamra areas, officials say

The cyclone volition besides trigger dense to precise dense rainfall successful coastal and bluish parts of Odisha, and a full of 14 districts are expected to beryllium affected.

“There are chances of tempest surge (above the astronomical tide) resulting successful inundation of low-lying areas successful Kendrapada, Bhadrak and Balasore districts during the landfall,” said Umashankar Das, idiosyncratic astatine the Bhubaneswar determination centre.

MLA Manas Kumar Dutta interacts with fishermen during inspection of the Bahabalpur Jetty country up of cyclone Dana landfall, successful Balasore territory connected Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

IMD sources said the cyclone whitethorn origin large harm to thatched houses and huts, rooftops whitethorn stroke away, and powerfulness and connection lines are apt to beryllium disrupted. It could besides uproot trees and impact the lasting crops successful immoderate areas.

The authorities has enactment the authorities machinery connected precocious alert and started shifting radical from susceptible areas to designated shelters prepared by the administration.

The state’s gross and catastrophe absorption curate Suresh Pujari said astir 5,000 shelters and alleviation centres person been prepared by the medication and instructions person been issued to displacement radical by Wednesday evening. The authorities has planned to evacuate astir 10 lakh radical from debased lying areas and susceptible places.

To assistance the section administration, the authorities has deployed implicit 20 teams of Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force arsenic good arsenic respective occurrence work personnel. While 20 NDRF teams person already been deployed, 5 much person been airdropped from Bhatinda successful Punjab.