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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has directed officials to contented hourly bulletin and real-time updates connected Cyclone Montha, ensuring that each improvement reaches the nationalist without delay. Reviewing the concern from the Secretariat’s RTGS Command Centre, the Chief Minister said the State government’s apical precedence is to safeguard lives and minimize spot loss.
Mr. Naidu held a high-level reappraisal gathering from the Secretariat done the RTGS Command Centre to measure the interaction and preparedness for Cyclone Montha, which is steadily approaching the Andhra Pradesh coast, connected Monday (October 27). He besides spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit telephone regarding the cyclone.
In the telephonic speech with the Chief Minister, Mr. Modi personally inquired astir the cyclone’s interaction and the State’s preparedness. The Prime Minister assured afloat enactment and practice from the Centre to assistance Andhra Pradesh successful tackling the concern effectively. Mr. Naidu entrusted Minister Nara Lokesh with the work of coordinating straight with the PMO to streamline alleviation and rehabilitation efforts.
During the review, the Chief Minister instructed that nary interruption should hap successful accusation travel and connection networks. To guarantee this, helium ordered the deployment of outer phones and further mobile towers, and directed officials to support 3,211 generators acceptable crossed 110 mandals for powerfulness backup astatine 2,707 colony and ward secretariats identified arsenic cyclone-prone.
Mr. Naidu emphasized that preventing nonaccomplishment of beingness is the government’s foremost extremity and ordered the evacuation of coastal residents to alleviation camps, with 25 kg of atom and indispensable commodities to beryllium distributed to each family.
Security unit monitoring the formation astatine Kothapatnam seashore successful Prakasam territory connected Monday (October 27). | Photo Credit: KOMMURI SRINIVAS
Relief and information measures
The Chief Minister instructed that NDRF and SDRF teams stay connected standby, and that the Fire Services, Electricity, Roads and Buildings, and Panchayat Raj departments enactment afloat alert. Officials were told to enactment swiftly to reconstruct infrastructure successful lawsuit of roadworthy breaches, fallen trees, oregon powerfulness enactment damage. He directed that sanitation beryllium fixed precocious precedence post-cyclone to forestall illness outbreaks, and that 108 and 104 aesculapian vehicles stay connected standby, ensuring aesculapian attraction for large women and caller mothers. Hospitals were asked to banal anti-snake venom and anti-rabies vaccines.
Current cyclone position
Officials informed the Chief Minister that Cyclone Montha is presently 680 km southeast of Kakinada, moving astatine 16 km per hr towards the coast. Heavy to precise dense rains are expected successful Krishna district, with important rainfall apt successful Guntur, Bapatla, NTR, Palnadu, and West Godavari districts. The cyclone is expected to marque landfall by Tuesday night. Mr. Naidu instructed that 851 JCBs and 757 powerfulness saws beryllium stationed crossed susceptible regions, with due mapping and post-cyclone auditing. All reservoirs, tanks, and drainage systems should beryllium maintained for creaseless floodwater discharge.
High tidal waves lash the enactment arsenic Visakhapatnam experiences rains connected Monday (October 27, 2025) nether the power of Cyclone Montha. The tempest is apt to marque its landfall adjacent Kakinada, southbound of the Visakhapatnam seashore connected October 28. | Photo Credit: K R DEEPAK
Warning officials against complacency, the Chief Minister said: “Any negligence successful alleviation duties volition invitation strict action. The acquisition from past cyclones similar Hudhud, Titli, and Phailin indispensable usher our preparedness now.”
Minister for HRD Nara Lokesh and Minister for Home Vangalapudi Anita, Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand, and elder officials from aggregate departments participated successful the reappraisal meeting.
