The National Disaster Response Force has elevated from 53 to one hundred the quantity of teams earmarked to undertake relief and rescue measures in the wake of impending Cyclone Tauktae, a senior officer mentioned on Saturday. The force’s Director General, S N Pradhan, mentioned in a tweet that these teams are getting mobilised for deployment in the coastal regions of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Goa and Maharashtra.
On Friday, he had mentioned that 53 teams are getting committed for the cyclonic storm that is building in the Arabian sea. The deployment of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams has been “upped” as per new inputs supplied by the India Meteorological Department, Pradhan mentioned.
Out of the one hundred teams, the director common mentioned 42 are getting pre-deployed or stationed on the ground in six states when 26 are on stand-by. Thirty-two teams are on backup and can be airlifted upon requirement, Pradhan mentioned. The NDRF chief also mentioned that members of these teams have been vaccinated against COVID-19 and are equipped with the needed tools.
A single NDRF group comprises 35-40 personnel and they are armed with tree and pole cutters, boats, standard healthcare help and other relief and rescue gear. The India Meteorological Department had mentioned on Friday that the depression in the Arabian Sea is probably to intensify into a “very severe cyclonic storm” on May 17 and cross the Gujarat coast a day later.
The climate situation has intensified into a deep depression. It is pretty probably to additional intensify into cyclonic storm ‘Tauktae’ by Saturday morning and pretty probably to intensify additional into a serious cyclonic storm by Saturday evening, it had mentioned.