Cyclone Montha: special officer reviews preparedness at Vizag

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Pedestrians screen  themselves with an umbrella amid a little  spell of mean   showers successful  Vijayawada. File

Pedestrians screen themselves with an umbrella amid a little spell of mean showers successful Vijayawada. File | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri

The State authorities appointed cyclone Montha’s peculiar officer, Ajay Jain, who is the Special Chief Secretary of the State, has connected Monday (October 27, 2025) reviewed Visakhapatnam’s cyclone preparedness with territory officials astatine the Collectorate.

Mr. Jain is the aforesaid serviceman who had accompanied the past Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu erstwhile the severe cyclonic tempest Hudhud had made its landfall implicit the metropolis successful October 2014.

Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Jain said, “We are taking each imaginable preparedness measures with the experiences we person faced during Cyclone Hudhud successful October 2014. We anticipation that determination volition beryllium nary nonaccomplishment owed to this cyclone Montha arsenic it is apt to transverse adjacent Kakinada, and besides the effectual preparedness of the State authorities nether the guidance of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.”

Mr. Jain aboriginal inquired astir the tract conditions of the cyclone affected areas. He directed the officials to commencement evacuating the radical from the hilly areas. He besides directed the gross unit patrolling the coastal areas and besides suggested them the measures to forestall visitors from entering the formation areas.

He besides spoke astir the steps taken connected the proviso of the indispensable commodities specified arsenic water, milk, fuel, and besides directed the officials to support acceptable arsenic galore world movers, cutting machines, generators, concatenation saws and exigency lights arsenic imaginable and to supply facilities successful impermanent shelters.

“We person told the officials to banal up an capable quantity of nutrient and h2o for proviso to structure homes and besides to the wide nationalist if required,” helium said.

Published - October 27, 2025 01:07 p.m. IST

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