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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, connected Friday (November 28, 2025), said that the State is prepared to look cyclonic storm Ditwah, arsenic southbound Tamil Nadu and the Cauvery delta portion brace for dense rains. The State authorities has sought further NDRF teams and contingency enactment from the equipped forces.
A full of 12 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and 16 teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) person been positioned successful 16 districts — Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Chennai, Vellore, Ranipet, Tiruvannamalai, Nagapattinam, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Pudukottai, Mayiladuthurai, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi.
Tamil Nadu’s requests
The Tamil Nadu authorities has requested for deploying further NDRF teams from neighbouring States for businesslike handling of the earthy catastrophe and has further requested for contingency enactment from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Coast Guard, an authoritative merchandise said.
Speaking to reporters aft a reappraisal gathering successful the State Emergency Operations Centre successful Chennai, Mr. Stalin said: “There is simply a informing for dense rains successful confederate parts and successful delta portion connected November 29 (Saturday) and November 30 (Sunday). They person issued a reddish alert. We held a reappraisal with Collectors of the districts for which reddish alert has been issued.”
Owing to beardown winds, a histrion fell connected Rameswaram roadworthy adjacent Mandapam successful Ramanathapuram territory connected November 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar
Impact successful Chennai
“We person instructed to guarantee that powerfulness lines bash not drawback and to forestall immoderate accidents,” Mr. Stalin said. To a query connected if determination would beryllium immoderate interaction successful Chennai, the Chief Minister said: “Chennai would person an impact. They accidental determination volition beryllium dense rains successful Chennai too.”
Asked astir precautionary measures, helium said: “Arrangements person been made to acceptable up alleviation camps wherever necessary and for distributing food. Steps person been made to displacement radical surviving successful low-lying areas erstwhile h2o is released,” Mr. Stalin said. Replying to a query of deputing of Ministers, if any, helium said: “There are Ministers in-charge for districts and they are monitoring.”
Real-time monitoring of rain-related developments by officials is underway astatine the Integrated Command Centre successful the Ripon Building successful Chennai connected November 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj
When referred to disapproval made by AIADMK person Edappadi K. Palaniswami that radical successful Cauvery delta portion were being deceived, Mr. Stalin said: “Let him not deceive them. He volition support claiming truthful each the time. It is not so. No request to reply to his claim.” Asked if the authorities was prepared to look the cyclone, Mr. Stalin replied successful the affirmative.
Stalin’s telephone for DMK functionaries
Mr. Stalin, who is besides the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president, urged his enactment office-bearers and functionaries astatine assorted levels to stay progressive and widen enactment to the radical successful presumption of Cyclone Ditwah.
In a statement, Mr. Stalin said arsenic portion of the preparatory measures for Cyclone Ditwah, the Tamil Nadu authorities had held respective review meetings implicit the past 2 days. All precautionary measures had been enactment successful place, and the full administrative machinery had been placed connected precocious alert. Instructions had been issued to Ministers, District Collectors, and Superintendents of Police to enactment vigilant.
Rough oversea is seen owed to dense winds astatine Mandapam successful Ramanathapuram territory connected November 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar
“I impulse DMK cadres to widen each imaginable enactment to the people. The territory secretaries of the enactment successful Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur, Chennai, Vellore, Ranipet, Tiruvannamalai, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Pudukkottai, Mayiladuthurai, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Tirunelveli, and Thoothukudi should coordinate with different office-bearers and functionaries astatine assorted levels to stay afloat prepared. Councillors should stay successful their wards and assistance the people,” helium said.
The enactment cadres should enactment with volunteers and NGOs astatine the crushed level to assistance radical successful request and marque arrangements to procure indispensable items specified arsenic rice, pulses, oil, milk, and drinking water. Party functionaries should show the availability of indispensable commodities and guarantee that indispensable arrangements are successful place, helium added.
