The Gujarat government has prepared relief activities, as cyclone Biparjoy becomes a very severe cyclonic storm. The relief activities include evacuating those close to the shore and halting fishing until June 16, with young children, expectant women, and the elderly given priority.
Authorities relocated 30,000 people to shelters before cyclone Biparjoy. The Gujarat government has prepared relief activities, including evacuating those close to the shore and halting fishing until June 16, with young children, expectant women, and the elderly given priority. The path of the cyclone is forecast to stay north-eastward and weaken.
Authorities relocated 30,000 people from coastal regions to makeshift shelters two days before the severe cyclone Biparjoy was anticipated to make landfall close to Jakhau port in Gujarat’s Kutch state.
Several NDRF and SDRF teams are on backup, according to an official. Together with Army officials, civil administration and the National Disaster Response Force have prepared relief activities.
In key regions, the Army has prepared flood relief columns.
During a virtual conference to review the level of cyclone preparedness, Union Home Minister Amit Shah instructed the Gujarat government to make sure that all basic facilities, including power, telecommunication, health care, and drinking water, would be supplied.
The conference was attended by delegates from eight districts that are anticipated to be affected by the storm, two Union ministers, a number of Gujarat ministers and MPs, MLAs, and Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat.
“We have already begun evacuating those living close to the shore who are most likely to be impacted by the landfall. Alok Kumar Pandey, the state commissioner for relief, reported that almost 30,000 persons have already been relocated to temporary housing by various district administrations.
He said that so far, one death associated with the cyclone has been documented and that the state administration plans to evacuate those who are within 10 kilometers of the shore.
Between Mandvi and Karachi, Biparjoy is probably going to traverse Saurashtra and Kutch close to Jakhau port.
Manorama Mohanty, the director of the Ahmedabad IMD, predicts that the cyclone would most likely pass on June 15 close to the Jakhau port between Mandvi in Kutch and Karachi in Pakistan, with gusts of between 125 and 135 kilometers per hour and 150 kilometers per hour.
She stated that coastal areas of the Saurashtra-Kutch region, particularly in the districts of Kutch, Porbandar, and Devbhumi Dwarka, have been warned of exceptionally heavy rains and high winds.
“The path of the cyclone is forecast to stay north-eastward after it makes landfall and weakens, and it is anticipated to proceed into extreme south Rajasthan.
Until June 15–17, it will deliver heavy to extremely heavy rain to north Gujarat, according to Mohanty.
Fishing has been halted until June 16, when ships will be moored and ports will be closed, due to the extremely rough sea and the region’s unusually high rains and strong winds brought on by the storm that is coming.
According to Mohanty, the water will be extremely rough to high till June 14, then high to fantastic on June 15. Pandey claims that the government is always trying to stop weather-related mortality.
According to him, the rescue effort is being conducted in two stages, with the first stage consisting of relocating those who live between 0 and 5 kilometers from the coast.
After that, residents will be moved 5 to 10 kilometers inland to safer regions, with young children, expectant women, and the elderly given precedence.
