PM Modi evaluates cyclone Biparjoy situation

PM Narendra Modi evaluated the situation on Monday regarding Cyclone Biparjoy, which is expected to impact the Kutch region of Gujarat on Thursday.

Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, P K Mishra, the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gauba, M Ravichandran, Kamal Kishore, a member of the Indian National Disaster Management Authority, and Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the Director General of the Meteorological Department, were among those present at the meeting.

According to a presentation given at the meeting, stormy weather with wind speeds of 125–135 kmph gusting to 145 kmph could be present on June 15 from morning to evening in Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Rajkot, Junagarh, and Morbi.

In preparation for Cyclone Biparjoy, which is expected to make landfall as a very severe cyclonic storm around the Saurashtra-Kutch beaches, authorities have banned fishing operations along Gujarat’s south and north coasts and are evacuating residents of districts by the sea, officials said on Monday.

Devbhumi Dwarka officials on the shore said that 1,300 residents have already been relocated to safer areas.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated in its most recent bulletin that a very severe cyclonic storm with maximum sustained wind speeds of 125-135 kilometres per hour (kmph) and gusting to 150 kmph was very likely to move north-northeast and cross Saurashtra and Kutch as well as adjacent Pakistan coasts between Mandvi (Gujarat) and Karachi (Pakistan) by noon on June 15.