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Cyclone Yaas: Modi to hold review meeting, Mamata stays at control room

Have extensively reviewed the disaster management preparedness, says chief minister

Our Bureau, Agencies Calcutta, New Delhi Published 23.05.21, 11:41 AM
Boats anchored at a beach in Puri on Saturday. Cyclone Yaas is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and cross the Bengal and the Odisha coasts on May 26.

Boats anchored at a beach in Puri on Saturday. Cyclone Yaas is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and cross the Bengal and the Odisha coasts on May 26. PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting, which will be attended by key ministers and officials, on Sunday to review preparations to deal with the approaching cyclone Yaas.

Representatives from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), secretaries from Telecom, Power, Civil aviation and Earth Sciences ministries will attend the meeting besides the home minister among others.

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The state government has taken all precautionary measures to deal with Cyclone Yaas, likely to hit the state on May 26, and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will stay at a control room set up for the purpose to monitor the situation, officials said on Saturday,

Mamata, who held a high-level meeting at the state secretariat during the day, said that relief materials were dispatched to vulnerable areas, while officials were directed for early evacuation of people from coastal and riverine areas.

"I have extensively reviewed the Disaster Management preparedness with regards to the impending Yaas cyclone today afternoon with all senior officers of relevant Central & State agencies along with DMs & SPs," Mamata tweeted.

"All officials have been advised of integrated command, advance planning & early evacuation from coastal & riverine areas to rescue shelters including cyclone & flood shelters, and to conduct relief and rehabilitation operations at the earliest," she added.

The state government has set a control room to monitor the situation at the state secretariat Nabanna', which will work round the clock. The phone numbers of the control room are 1070 and 033-22143526, Banerjee said.

"All agencies have been asked to spring into action.

Relief materials have been dispatched & Quick Response Teams are mobilised. I request all to stay alert," she said in the Twitter post.

Besides the centralised control room, the state government has opened several smaller control rooms in coastal areas of the state, an official said.

"The CM will remain present at the control room in Nabanna on the days when the cyclone is about to hit the coastal areas of the state. She will be accompanied by other senior officers of the government," he said.

All precautionary measures have been taken by the administration, the officer added.

Cyclone Yaas is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm and cross the Bengal and the Odisha coasts on May 26, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.

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