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Kolkata/Port Blair. Disaster Response Force personnel are still on alert in the coastal areas of East Medinipur and South 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal after the ‘Mocha’ cyclone hit the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday. An officer has given this information. According to him, seven groups of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, including divers, have been deployed in the Digha-Mandarmani coastal area in East Medinipur district as the sea is getting rough. Here, more than 100 personnel of the State Disaster Management Group have been deployed at Bakkhali beach in South 24 Parganas district to monitor the movement of tourists and local people. On behalf of the administration, the local people are being prohibited from going near the sea.
Tourists are not allowed near the sea
Vikas Sadhu, a member of the NDRF team, said that on his part, tourists are not being allowed to go near the sea, where strong waves are rising. The NDRF team is also controlling the movement on the beach. After the cyclone hit the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar, it has been asked to be alert for the next few hours. Strong winds are blowing in the coastal areas of both the districts of Bengal. The waves of the sea are also on the rise.
Mocha will not hit West Bengal!
In both the districts, arrangements have been made to evacuate the residents of the coastal areas during emergency. Another NDRF official says that the Meteorological Office had predicted that cyclone Mocha will not hit West Bengal, but all precautionary measures have been taken in case of any change. People living in the low-lying coastal areas of East Medinipur in South 24 Parganas have already been shifted to safer places. Adequate relief material has been sent to these areas. Fishermen have been asked not to venture into the sea for three days from Friday.
Mocha did not knock in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Meanwhile, reports from Port Blair said that Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where adequate precautionary measures were taken to minimize the possible impact of the disaster. Director (Meteor) GK Das at IMD Kolkata said that the Andaman-Nicobar Islands were not much affected due to the cyclonic storm. It has been raining in the island region for the last few days. However, life in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been thrown out of gear for the past few days as the administration has banned fishing, tourism and movement of ships from the mainland in view of the cyclone.
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