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Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Tuesday instructed officials to instrumentality each indispensable preventive and precautionary measures arsenic Cyclone Montha approaches the Andhra Pradesh coast.
Reviewing the concern from the RTGS Command Centre connected Tuesday, Mr. Naidu stressed the request for round-the-clock monitoring and utmost vigilance successful each susceptible districts.
The officials indispensable guarantee that the mistakes committed during the erstwhile cyclones indispensable not beryllium repeated, helium said.
Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan, Ministers Nara Lokesh, V. Anitha, P. Narayana, Anagani Satya Prasad, Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand, DGP Harish Kumar Gupta, and elder officials from assorted departments participated successful the reappraisal meeting.
The Chief Minister directed that NDRF and SDRF teams beryllium deployed successful and astir Kakinada, wherever the cyclone is apt to marque landfall. Wind and rainfall strength should beryllium forecast successful beforehand for a timely response. He emphasised the request for preparedness with exigency machinery, connection systems, and field-level coordination.
Mr. Naidu instructed the officials to alert residents successful low-lying areas, get real-time crushed reports done colony and ward secretariats, and guarantee contiguous evacuation wherever necessary.
He said the authorities indispensable guarantee velocity and ratio successful alleviation and rehabilitation.
He directed the officials to support capable fodder acceptable for livestock and to deploy drones to place flood-hit areas, uprooted trees, and damaged powerfulness lines for punctual restoration.
Mr. Pawan Kalyan directed the officials to guarantee that fallen trees, electrical poles, and roadworthy harm bash not obstruct colony connectivity.
Minister Nara Lokesh briefed the Chief Minister that each territory Collectors, SPs, and tract officers were actively coordinating connected the crushed to negociate the situation.
Officials briefed the Chief Minister that the cyclone is moving person to onshore and is expected to marque landfall southbound of Kakinada astir midnight. Heavy rains accompanied by beardown winds person already begun lashing Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Visakhapatnam, and different coastal regions.
Officials informed that dense rainfall was recorded crossed Visakhapatnam, Konaseema, Srikakulam, Anakapalli, West Godavari, and Nellore districts successful the past 24 hours. Alerts astir dense rainfall warnings were sent to 1.92 crore radical done mobile messages.
As a precautionary measure, 2,703 generators person been deployed and indispensable commodities stocked astatine the colony secretariats. The Police Department besides established a wireless web with 81 towers to support uninterrupted connection during emergencies.
Earthmovers and different dense machinery are being tracked done an app to show tract operations.
Officials reported that astir 43,000 hectares of crops were inundated successful Konaseema, Prakasam, Nandyal, Kadapa, and East Godavari districts. The Chief Minister asked the Agriculture Department to update the mobile app, allowing farmers to straight study harvest damage.
With Rayalaseema receiving nary rainfall, the Chief Minister instructed the Water Resources Department to store inflows from the Krishna stream successful section tanks and guarantee that h2o does not spell waste.
