Cyclone Biparjoy Updates: According to IMD, Biparjoy is likely to make landfall on Thursday evening as an extremely severe cyclonic storm with winds of up to 150 kmph between Mandvi in Kutch and Karachi in Pakistan near Jakhau Port. According to a press release issued by the State Emergency Operating Center (SEOC), Khambhaliya taluk of Devbhoomi Dwarka district received the highest rainfall of 121mm in the 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning.
Before the possible knock of powerful cyclone Biparjoy near Jakhau port in Kutch district of Gujarat, authorities have so far evacuated about 50,000 people from the coastal areas of the state and shifted them to temporary shelter camps. . The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday said that Saurashtra and Kutch region experienced heavy rains accompanied by strong winds as Biparjoy moved towards the Gujarat coast.
According to the IMD, Biparjoy is likely to make landfall between Mandvi in Kutch and Karachi in Pakistan near Jakhau Port as an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Thursday evening with wind speed up to 150 kmph.
According to a press release issued by the State Emergency Operating Center (SEOC), Khambhaliya taluk of Devbhoomi Dwarka district recorded the highest rainfall of 121mm in the 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning. Whereas, Dwarka and Kalyanpur received 92 mm and 70 mm of rain respectively.
According to the release, nine talukas of Jamnagar, Junagadh, Rajkot, Porbandar and Kutch districts received more than 50 mm of rain during that period.
According to SEOC, 54 talukas of Saurashtra and Kutch districts received more than 10 mm of rain in the 24 hours ending Wednesday morning.
State Relief Commissioner Alok Kumar Pandey said, “The cyclone is now about 290 km from Kutch. As a precautionary measure, we have shifted about 50,000 people from the coastal areas to safe shelter camps. The evacuation operation is still going on and by evening the remaining 5,000 people will be shifted to safer places.”
Pandey told the media in Gandhinagar that out of the 50,000 people evacuated, 18,000 have been shifted to camps in Kutch district, while the rest have been shifted to safer places in Junagadh, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Morbi and Rajkot. has been delivered.
According to Pandey, 15 teams of NDRF, 12 of SDRF, 115 of State Road and Building Department and 397 of State Electricity Department have been deployed in different coastal districts.
“Officials from the Power and Road and Building departments have reached the affected areas to restore power supply and communication. We have also deployed separate teams equipped with HAM radio sets and satellite phones in the regional areas for better communication,” he said. Have done.”
Cyclone to hit Gujarat coast on June 15
Earlier, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel visited the State Government’s Emergency Operation Center on Tuesday night to review the preparedness to deal with the cyclone’s fury.
The IMD said in a bulletin that as the cyclone approaches the Gujarat coast on June 15, the intensity of rainfall will increase in the state and extremely heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places over Kutch, Devbhoomi Dwarka and Jamnagar.
According to the bulletin, Biparjoy is very likely to cross Saurashtra, Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coast between Mandvi (Gujarat) and Karachi (Pakistan) near Jakhau port (Gujarat) by June 15 evening as a very severe cyclonic storm. During this time, strong wind speed reaching 125-135 kmph gusting to 150 kmph is very likely over the region.
According to the bulletin, due to the cyclone, heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected in Porbandar, Rajkot, Morbi, Junagadh and rest of the districts of Saurashtra and North Gujarat region.
The IMD has forecast light to moderate and heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over the districts of north Gujarat and adjoining south Rajasthan on Friday.
