New Delhi: As Cyclone Tauktae leaves behind a path of destruction in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi can be visiting Gujarat and Diu on May 19 so to take inventory of the state of affairs there, sources informed Zee News.
PM Modi will conduct an aerial survey of Una, Diu, Jafarabad, and Mahuva and will even maintain a assessment assembly in Ahmedabad later, information company ANI confirmed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat and Diu tomorrow, to assessment the state of affairs & injury due to #CycloneTauktae. He will conduct an aerial survey of areas resembling Una, Diu, Jafarabad, and Mahuva. He will even maintain a assessment assembly in Ahmedabad later. pic.twitter.com/sYH9MRIAk2
— ANI (@ANI) May 18, 2021
Cyclone Tauktae — made landfall in Gujarat at round 8.30 pm on Monday and it’s the greatest storm to hit Gujarat in a long time with wind velocity of 155-165 kilometres per hour, gusting to 190 km/hour.
“Cyclonic Storm Tauktae is over the Gujarat region. It is about 120 km south-southeast of Deesa, and 35 km west of Ahmedabad and 80 km east-northeast of Surendranagar. It is likely to weaken into a deep depression within three hours,” the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani claimed over 16,000 homes have been broken, and greater than 40,000 bushes and over 1,000 poles uprooted in the storm.
At least 13 individuals died due to accidents underneath the impression of the cyclone in Gujarat because the storm battered components of the state and left behind a path of destruction in its wake uprooting electrical poles and bushes, and damaging a number of homes and roads, earlier than weakening, officers stated on Tuesday.
