In view of the severe cyclone storm ‘Titli’, the Puri district administration in swift action on Wednesday evacuated around 2,000 people from Pethakata area of beach to the cyclone shelters.
The fishermen of Panthkata, Balinolia Sahi, Baliapanda besides Konark beach have been stopped from venturing into sea with their boats. In the cyclone shelters, the administration would supply cooked food to the people.
Likewise as precautionary measures towards storm, villagers living near the coast of Astarang, Kaktpur, Puri Sadar, Brahamgiri and Krusnaprasad blocks were evacuated on to safer places.
Bringing the entire beach under warning no 6, the district administration ordered the villagers to leave home and go to safer places.
Many villagers have also been shifted to the schools and colleges as a precautionary measure of safety.
The Tehsildars and Block Development Officers of the respective areas have been instructed to remain alert keeping with them sufficient dry foods, candles, kerosene and medicines.
The officials were ordered to arrange cooked foods for the people in cyclone rest centers till they return home. As many 12 senior officers of the district headquarters were deputed to those areas to supervise the rescue and relief operations there. From early morning the beach continued to wear a furious look with big tides coming to shore and dashing the stand bed. As the sky was deeply darkened towards the afternoon with rain continuing through the day in the city, the sea got more violent in the evening by bringing aTsunami fear in the people.