Cyclone Amphan is likely to cross West Bengal-Bangladesh coasts between
Sagar Islands in Bengal and Hatiya islands in Bangladesh on May 20.
The India
Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that Very Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘Amphan’
over central parts of South Bay of Bengal is going to intensify into Extremely
Severe Cyclonic Storm in next 6 hours.
"The trajectory is mostly towards West Bengal, Sagar Islands and probably towards Bangladesh.... But we have to watch the trajectory very closely. NDRF has deployed the teams well in advance.
They are either
deployed or moving towards the destination," S N Pradhan, the chief of
NDRF said.
The cyclone
is also likely to unleash heavy rain and high-velocity winds in large swathes
of coastal Odisha and West Bengal. It is likely to cross West Bengal-Bangladesh
coasts between Sagar Islands in Bengal and Hatiya islands in Bangladesh on May
20 as a very severe cyclonic storm, Regional MeT Director in Kolkata G K Das
said.
"The coastal
districts of Gangetic West Bengal, including North and South 24 Parganas,
Kolkata, East and West Midnapore, Howrah and Hooghly are likely to experience
light to moderate rain at many places with heavy downpour at isolated places on
May 19," Das added.
Seven NDRF teams
have been deployed in six districts of West Bengal - South 24 Parganas, North
24 Parganas, East Midnapore, West Midnapore, Howrah and Hooghly. According to
Ministry of Home Affairs, the cyclone will make a landfall in West Bengal on
Wednesday.
Odisha, which has
been ravaged by a string of cyclones over the last few years, including the cyclone
Fani last year, has made arrangements to shift 11,00,000 people from vulnerable
areas, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) P K Jena said.
Twelve coastal
districts - Ganjam, Gajapti, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak,
Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur, Cuttack, Khurda and Nayagarh - are on high alert.
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