Ahead of PM Modi's visit, heavy rainfall continues in Odisha as depression crosses coastal areas

A depression implicit the Bay of Bengal crossed the South Odisha seashore adjacent to Gopalpur successful Ganjam territory aboriginal connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) morning, bringing dense rainfall successful respective districts of the State, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

The IMD's study comes connected a time erstwhile Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to sojourn Odisha, during which helium volition unveil improvement projects worthy much than ₹60,000 crore successful sectors specified arsenic telecommunications, railways and higher education, officials said.

Initially, the spot for the PM's nationalist gathering was fixed astatine Berhampur successful Ganjam territory successful the confederate portion of the State, but it was aboriginal changed to Jharsuguda owed to a forecast of dense rainfall successful that portion connected Saturday (September 27).

However, the IMD said Jharsuguda is among 9 districts wherever thunderstorms and lightning with gusty aboveground upwind velocity reaching 20-30 kmph are apt to occur.

The IMD said the "depression implicit the Bay of Bengal moved astir westwards with a velocity of 12 kmph during the past 6 hours, crossed the southbound Odisha seashore adjacent to Gopalpur astir 4.30 a.m. Saturday (September 27)".

Depression is simply a upwind information that follows a well-marked low-pressure strategy and precedes a cyclonic storm.

At 5.30 a.m. connected Saturday (September 27), the strategy laic centred implicit southbound coastal Odisha, astir 10 km west-northwest of Gopalpur and 120 km west-southwest of Puri.

“It is precise apt to proceed to determination astir westwards crossed southbound Odisha and Chhattisgarh and weaken gradually into a well-marked low-pressure country during the adjacent 24 hours,” the IMD said.

Rains LIVE:  Heavy rainfall lashes parts of Odisha, slump crosses coastal areas

The full coastal and confederate portion of the State received dense rainfall connected Friday (September 26) night, and the downpour continued this morning, an authoritative said.

The IMD has issued an orangish informing of heavy-to-very-heavy rainfall with lightning and upwind velocity reaching 40-50 kmph for Nabarangpur district, and a yellowish alert of downpour for Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam, Kalahandi and Nuapada districts.

The upwind bureau besides predicted thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds implicit Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Sonepur, Boudh, Bolangir and Kandhamal districts.

Fishermen were advised not to task into the oversea till Saturday (September 27) afternoon.

PM Modi’s sojourn

From occidental Odisha’s Jharsuguda town, PM Modi volition committee much than 97,500 4G telecom towers built with BSNL’s ‘swadeshi’ technology, marking India’s introduction into a league of nations specified arsenic Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, and China that manufacture homegrown telecom equipment.

In a station connected X, he said, “Will beryllium successful Jharsuguda, Odisha, to inaugurate developmental works...In a historical feat, implicit 97,500 telecom towers crossed India would beryllium commissioned. These person been built utilizing section technologies and volition boost connectivity successful distant areas, borderline areas and those affected by Maoism.”

Besides respective projects circumstantial to Odisha, Mr. Modi volition laic instauration stones for the enlargement of 8 IITs crossed the country, which volition make capableness for 10,000 caller students implicit the adjacent 4 years.

“The different projects being launched oregon instauration stones being laid pertain to obstruction connectivity, enlargement of IIT infrastructure, accomplishment improvement centres, lodging and overmuch more. These works are successful enactment with our imaginativeness to physique a Viksit Bharat wherever the mediocre and downtrodden get entree to all-round development,” Mr. Modi said.