Cyclone Dana Makes Landfall, Odisha And Bengal On Alert: 10 Points

Cyclone Dana Makes Landfall, Odisha And Bengal On Alert: 10 Points

Police officers make bulletins at Hooghly forward of Cyclone ‘Dana’ landfall in Kolkata

New Delhi:
Heavy rains and gusty winds battered southern West Bengal on Thursday because the state administration evacuated over 2.5 lakh individuals to security in anticipation of the upcoming extreme cyclonic storm ‘Dana,’ set to make landfall in Odisha after midnight.

Here’s your 10-point cheatsheet to this massive story

  1. The landfall strategy of extreme cyclonic storm Dana started on Thursday night time and was anticipated to proceed until Friday morning, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned.

  2. At 4.30 pm, the storm was positioned 150 km southeast of Paradip (Odisha) and 250 km south-southeast of West Bengal’s Sagar Island.

  3. In anticipation of the cyclone, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced that the state had recognized greater than 3.5 lakh individuals for evacuation from low-lying areas. As of Thursday, 243,374 individuals had already taken shelter in aid camps.

  4. “For evacuation from low-lying areas, we have now recognized 356,941 individuals,” Ms Banerjee advised reporters, including that she would stay on the state secretariat in a single day to observe the state of affairs. Chief secretary Manoj Pant and residential secretary Nandini Chakraborty are additionally overseeing the evacuation and aid operations.

  5. South Bengal districts, together with Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly and the 24 Parganas, have already begun experiencing average to heavy rains and gusty winds, with climate situations anticipated to worsen. The IMD has warned of “heavy to very heavy rainfall” in these areas, with remoted locations more likely to see “extraordinarily heavy downpours” over the subsequent 48 hours.

  6. Fishermen have been suggested to keep away from the ocean as wind speeds of as much as 110 kmph are anticipated over the northwest Bay of Bengal. The storm is anticipated to strengthen, with winds reaching 120 kmph throughout landfall earlier than progressively subsiding.

  7. Public transportation throughout southern Bengal might be severely impacted. South Eastern Railway (SER), which oversees routes in West Bengal, Odisha, and Jharkhand, has cancelled greater than 170 specific and passenger trains scheduled between October 23 and 27.

  8. In addition, Eastern Railway cancelled 68 suburban trains within the Howrah division for Friday morning, whereas all EMU native trains from Sealdah station had been suspended from Thursday night by Friday morning. Kolkata Port authorities additionally halted ship actions till Friday night as a precautionary measure.

  9. Operations at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport had been suspended from 6 pm on Thursday till 9 am on Friday on account of anticipated excessive winds and heavy rain. Airport Director Pravat Ranjan Beuria mentioned obligatory precautions have been taken, together with securing planes, retracting aerobridges, and guaranteeing all unfastened tools have been tied.

  10. Thirteen battalions from the state’s catastrophe administration power and 14 battalions from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed within the coastal areas. Meanwhile, the Indian Coast Guard has mobilised vessels and plane to answer any misery conditions at sea.