To confront the challenges of tsunami in the costal belt of Puri district, the administration held a preparatory meeting here on Saturday. As sea has turned violent now due to low pressure, administration apprehendds that tsunami might hit coastal blocks such as Puri Sadar, Kakatpur, Astaranga, Gop, Brahmagiri and Krusnaprasad etc.
Sources said 328 coastal villages of Baleswar, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Puri and Ganjam districts are prone to tsunami. In Puri district, 88 coastal villages are on the sea earthquake line. It has been decided to conduct awareness camps on August 31 at block levels. Authorities were instructed to conduct mock drills to make people aware about how to be shifted to safer places during a calamity.
Puri ADM Bibhuti Bhusan Das presided over the meeting. Sub-Collector (Emergency) Itishree Nayak informed officials mode of mock drills through power-point projector. Among others, Puri CDMO Bhaskar Samatray and DPC Saundr-yamanajari Das, BDOs and Tehsildars were present.