Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy on Tuesday apprised Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba that the State has readied all its machineries, materials and manpower to tackle the impending Cyclone Amphan.
Tripathy said this while Gauba was reviewing the State’s preparedness to combat the Amphan. ACS and SRC PK Jena and Home Secretary Sanjiv Chopra were present.
The issues relating to evacuation of people from vulnerable areas, relief, rescue, storing of essential commodities and immediate restoration of road communication, power connectivity etc were discussed.
Tripathy appraised that the evacuation of people from the vulnerable area would be completed by end of the day i.e Tuesday. He said manpower and equipment were moved to strategic points for immediate restoration of road and power communication from both sides. DG sets were hired to keep the water supply uninterrupted. The telecom companies requested to keep DG sets for un-interrupted tele-communication. Truck mounted telecom towers kept ready for any eventuality. Cyclone shelters have been made ready with necessary equipments.
The Cabinet Secretary assured of all assistances to the State for countering the cyclone. He directed different Central departments to stay in touch with the State departments.
Jena said, “In addition to PRI and local administration, we are using local based alert system (LBAS) and self broadcasting system for extending our outreach to people without creating panic among them.”
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