Cyclone Biparjoy: Amit Shah To Take Stock Of Situation In Gujarat's Kutch, Conduct Aerial Survey Today

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Gujarat's Kutch to take stock of the present situation in areas affected by cyclone Biparjoy. He will also conduct an aerial survey of the affected areas.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to visit Gujarat's Kutch.

Source : PTI

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Saturday visit Gujarat's Kutch and Jakhau Port to take stock of the situation in areas that have been affected by cyclone Biparjoy and conduct an aerial survey of them. During his visit, he will also be holding a meeting with Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, and senior officers. He will also first conduct an aerial survey of affected areas. News agency ANI reported that the Home Minister will also visit shelter homes, Mandvi, meet people in those areas. He is also expected to visit the Swami Narayan temple in Bhuj and review food materials and other facilities for affected people.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will also visit shelter homes and meet people. He will then visit Mandvi and meet affected people. Later, the Home Minister will visit the Swami Narayan temple in Bhuj and review food materials and other facilities for affected people.

— ANI (@ANI) June 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department on Saturday said that cyclonic storm Biparjoy weakened into a Deep Depression at 11:30 PM on Friday over Southeast Pakistan adjoining Southwest Rajasthan and Kutch about 100 km northeast of Dholavira. The weather office also said that the storm will weaken further into a depression during the next five hours. Udaipur witnessed the impact of the cyclone. Due to the impact of the cyclone, trees were uprooted in Gujarat' Bhuj, Kutch, as reported by the news agency ANI.

The NDRF team is conducting the clearance work across the state. As the cyclone weakened and moved towards south Rajasthan on Friday after ravaging the Kutch and Saurashtra regions, the Gujarat government faced the immediate challenge of restoring electricity in some 1,000 villages and clearing roads of fallen trees.

While the cyclone weakened after making landfall on the Kutch coast of Gujarat on Thursday evening, the IMD said that north Gujarat should brace for heavy rainfall. There was no loss of life on account of cyclone Biparjoy (which means calamity in Bengali) in Gujarat, the government said. Advance planning and mass evacuation of over one lakh persons helped the state achieve "zero casualty", Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was quoted as saying in a press release.