Cyclone Montha: Srikakulam, Vizianagaram district officials gear up

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The heavy slump implicit southeast Bay of Bengal moved west-northwestwards connected October 26, 2025. Photo:

The officials of some Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts are prepared to minimise the imaginable harm owed to the interaction of cyclone ‘Montha’, which is expected to transverse Kakinada seashore by the nighttime of October 28, 2025.

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The officials are against taking immoderate chances this clip successful the aftermath of terrible harm suffered by the territory during Hud-Hud, Titli and different cyclones. Srikakulam district, which has a 185-km-long seashore from Pydibhimavaram to Ichachapuram, has been facing unprecedented harm owed to the cyclones, adjacent if they transverse the seashore astatine different places specified arsenic Kakinada and Visakhapatnam.

A dedicated power country (08942-240557) has been acceptable up successful the Srikakulam Collector’s bureau to show susceptible areas specified arsenic Palasa, Sompeta, Santabommali, Kotabommali, and different regions that are portion of the Uddanam area, known for its cashew and coconut groves. Srikakulam in-charge Collector Farman Ahmed Khan organised a teleconference with each acrophobic officials and directed them to support cleanable coordination to grip the crisis.

Mr. Khan asked the fishermen not to task into the oversea for the adjacent week since the oversea would beryllium precise unsmooth nether the interaction of the cyclone.

He asked the irrigation officials to show the inflows into large rivers similar Vamsadhara and Nagavali, arsenic flooding was different large situation aft the cyclone deed the coast. He directed the officials to displacement the radical of low-lying areas to safer places arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible.

Vizianagaram Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy has besides organised a gathering with officials acrophobic to instrumentality remedial measures to minimise the harm owed to the cyclone. He asked officials of Bhogapuram and Pusapatirega mandals to beryllium alert, arsenic implicit 50 villages of those mandals are located precise adjacent to the oversea coast. He asked agriculture officials to alert the farmers to support the lasting crops.

Published - October 26, 2025 02:08 p.m. IST

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