Cyclone Biparjoy: PM Modi holds review meet, IMD issues orange alert for Saurashtra and Kutch coasts (Photo: PIB)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed the state of affairs associated to Cyclone Biparjoy which is more likely to hit the Kutch area of Gujarat on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Saurashtra and Kutch coasts in Gujarat over the east-central and adjoining northeast Arabian Sea.
The assembly was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister P Okay Mishra, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, Earth Sciences Secretary M Ravichandran, Kamal Kishore, Member National Disaster Management Authority, India, Meteorological Department Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, amongst others.
According to a presentation made throughout the assembly, Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Junagarh and Morbi might expertise stormy climate with a wind velocity of 125-135 kmph gusting to 145 kmph on June 15 morning to night.
Fishing actions alongside Gujarat’s south and north coasts have been suspended and authorities have been evacuating individuals in districts by the ocean in view of Cyclone Biparjoy which is more likely to make landfall alongside the Saurashtra-Kutch coasts as a really extreme cyclonic storm, officers mentioned on Monday.
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Officials in coastal Devbhumi Dwarka mentioned round 1,300 individuals have been shifted to safer locations to this point. In its newest bulletin, the IMD mentioned the ‘extraordinarily extreme cyclonic storm’ was very more likely to transfer north-northeast and cross Saurashtra and Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coasts between Mandvi (Gujarat) and Karachi (Pakistan) by the June 15 midday as a ‘very extreme cyclonic storm’ with most sustained wind velocity of 125-135 kilometres per hours (kmph) gusting to 150 kmph.
