Cyclone Dana hit the Odisha coast today and disturbed everything while it also caused a landfall between Bhitarkanika and Dhamra with wind speeds of 100-110 kmph. The landfall process of Cyclone Dana began on the Odisha coast around midnight, with the districts of Bhadrak, Kendrapara, Balasore, and Jagatsinghpur witnessing wind speeds of 110 kmph and extremely heavy rain.
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), in an update around 10 am, said the landfall process was completed and the system took at least eight and a half hours to enter the landmass. DanaDana, which was named by Qatar, is likely to weaken gradually in the next six hours, the weather agency said.The trees also got uprooted, and some areas also got inundated in Odisha.
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The state has achieved its “Zero Casualty Mission”
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi declared that the state has achieved its “Zero Casualty Mission,” as there has been no report regarding any loss of human life or injury due to the severe cyclonic storm. As there were no reports of death in Odisha, the neighboring West Bengal faced a loss of one person as he died in the south 24 Parganas district’s Patharpratima. He was sadly working on a cable while the storm just hit. Even East Mumbai and Kolkata experienced the impact of the cyclone, and a lot of waterlogging was seen in several areas.
In Odisha, the Mohan Charan Majhi-led government had claimed that they evacuated about 5.8 lakh people and deployed 385 rescue teams comprising National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams, Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) 51, Fire Service, and Forest staff. In Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said 2,43,374 people have taken shelter in camps. She also spent the entire Thursday night at the state secretariat and personally monitored the situation.
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