Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Bhavnagar in Gujarat to review the situation in the state in the aftermath of the devastating Cyclone Tauktae.
PM Modi landed at Bhavnagar from Delhi and proceeded for an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad and Mahuva, an official mentioned.
Honourable Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji landed in Bhavnagar. He will conduct an aerial survey of the areas of Amreli, Gir Somnath and Bhavnagar districts hit by #CycloneTauktae. pic.twitter.com/VcBk6lwbau
— Vijay Rupani (@vijayrupanibjp) May 19, 2021
After the aerial survey, the PM is scheduled to maintain a review assembly at Ahmedabad to review the reduction and rescue operation submit the Cyclone.
Thirteen individuals have been killed in Gujarat as Cyclone Tauktae pummelled components of the state and left behind a path of destruction alongside the coast, uprooting electrical poles, timber and damaging hundreds of homes and roads.
In what was one of many worst cyclones confronted by the state, Tauktae triggered heavy rains in many components alongside its method from the Saurashtra coast to North Gujarat with 46 talukas receiving over 100 mm of downpour, whereas 12 of them recorded 150 mm to 175 mm of rains.
Tauktae, characterised as a particularly extreme cyclonic storm on Monday, has now weakened right into a melancholy and lay centred over south Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat area on Wednesday morning, the India Meteorological Department mentioned.
Over 16,000 homes have been broken, greater than 40,000 timber and over 70,000 electrical poles uprooted, whereas 5,951 villages confronted complete energy blackout due to the cyclonic storm in Gujarat, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani mentioned.
