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PM To Hold Review Meeting With MHA, NDMA On Cyclone Issue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level meeting with officials of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Monday to review the situation due to a cyclonic threat in parts of coastal India.
Modi will chair the meeting at 4 pm, Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted.
The meeting will be held at the Prime Minister’s residence here in which Shah, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla, and NDMA officials will be present.
The Prime Minister called the meeting a few hours after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a cyclone alert for West Bengal and north Odisha coasts as an extremely severe cyclonic storm ‘Amphan’ was looming over central parts of south and central Bay of Bengal.
In a statement, the IMD said: “The Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘AMPHAN’ (pronounced as UM-PUN) over central parts of southern Bay of Bengal moved north-northeastwards with a speed of 13 km/h during the past six hours, and has intensified into an Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm and lies centered at 0230 hrs IST of today over central parts of south Bay of Bengal and adjoining central Bay of Bengal near latitude 12.9 degrees North and longitude 86.4 degrees East, about 820 km nearly south of Paradip (Odisha), 980 km south-southwest of Digha (West Bengal) and 1,090 km south-southwest of Khepupara (Bangladesh).”
“It is very likely to intensify further during the next six hours. It is very likely to move north-northeastwards and move fast across the northwest Bay of Bengal and cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between Digha (West Bengal) and Hatiya Islands (Bangladesh) during the afternoon/evening of May 20, 2020, as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm,” the IMD further warned.
(IANS)
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