At least six people today died in incidents associated to Cyclone Tauktae in Gujarat, although more than 17,000 homes collapsed, and various trees and electrical energy poles have been uprooted, officials mentioned on Tuesday.
There has been significant-scale harm to summer time crops, specially mango and til (sesame), in Saurashtra-Kutch and south Gujarat regions. Industrial operations have been also hit in the state.
After a critique meeting on Tuesday, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani ordered a survey of the harm to crops and industries in Gir-Somnath, Bhavnagar and Amreli districts in Saurashtra, and Surat, Valsad and Navsari districts in south Gujarat.
Rupani mentioned electrical energy provide to more than 4,000 villages was impacted due to the cyclonic storm, and about 1,one hundred electrical energy poles have been either broken or fell due to higher velocity winds in the worse-impacted places.
The Chief Minister mentioned casualties have been kept to the minimum as the state machinery acted in advance and relocated more than two lakh people today from the coast to the interiors.
Sources in the state industries division mentioned operations at Petronet LNG’s Dahej terminal have been hit as energy tripped due to cyclonic winds. Supply of practically 40 mmscmd organic gas to numerous components of the nation was hampered. According to the sources, provide would be restored late on Tuesday.
Though most industrial units in the coastal places had suspended their operations from Monday to Wednesday, several ceramic units in Morbi continued operating at a decrease capacity. Natural gas provide to the ceramic cluster remained about 2.5 mscmd on Tuesday against its typical demand of more than 6 mscmd.
In a statement, APM Terminals, the Pipavav port operator, mentioned the port was hit really hard. “Though key infrastructure, including railway tracks and cranes, is safe. We are in the process of restoring the communication. There is still no power at Pipavav port,” it mentioned.
Though the India Meteorological Department has mentioned the cyclone, which made landfall close to the Gujarat coast as an very serious cyclonic storm, has began weakening, the state government will continue to stay vigilant till Wednesday evening.
In the last 24 hours, one to nine inches of rain was reported in as several as 15 districts in the state. Bagasara town in Saurashtra received nine inches of rain with heavy wind.