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The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) formed 20 Quick Response Teams (QRTs) to efficaciously woody with emergencies successful presumption of cyclone Montha, successful Visakhapatnam metropolis nether 10 zones, said Commissioner Ketan Garg.
He was sharing GVMC’s preparedness program astatine a reappraisal gathering held astatine the Collectorate present connected Monday (October 27, 2025) by Visakhapatnam District Special Officer Ajay Jain, appointed by the authorities to oversee cyclone alleviation operations.
The Commissioner said that the QRTs person been deployed successful a full of 10 zones, 2 successful each zone. Each QRT squad volition person 1 world moving machine, 1 tripper, 1 tractor, 1 histrion cutter, exigency lights and cutting machines. Thus, 29 world moving machines, 82 sprayers, 64 fogging machines, 26 powerfulness saws, 15 generators, 108 connection instrumentality and further unit person been made available, helium added.
Mr. Garg further said that 38 further rehabilitation centres person been acceptable up successful collaboration with the territory medication and radical surviving successful delicate areas and precocious hazard areas person been evacuated to these places.
Meanwhile, territory Collector M.N. Harendhira Prasad said that the territory medication is afloat prepared to look the cyclone. People and officials successful the coastal areas person been alerted, and officials astatine the mandal and constituency levels person already visited the tract and reviewed the situation. People person been alerted successful beforehand to debar immoderate untoward incidental connected the banks of Gostani river, helium said, adding that the concern astatine the Gambheeram and Meghadrigedda reservoirs is being reviewed from clip to time.
“There are astir 12,755 houses successful the hilly areas, retired of which 96 are successful a unsafe information and the residents acrophobic person been shifted to safer places. There are 20 cyclone shelters and 23 rehabilitation centres that tin accommodate 9,290 radical and each kinds of facilities are being provided there,” the Collector added.
