Bhubaneswar: Odisha Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) has written to the OSD of the Chief Secretary, Development Commissioner, and other concerned authorities to step up the administration’s preparedness in view of the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) forecast of the prevailing depression over the west-central and adjoining northwest Bay of Bengal.
The IMD has predicted that the depression is very likely to move nearly northwards towards north Odisha-West Bengal coasts and intensify into a deep depression during next 24 hours. Thereafter, it is very likely to move west-northwestwards and cross Odisha and adjoining West Bengal coasts between Puri and Digha around evening/night of September 9. Continuing to move further west-northwestwards, it is likely to move across Odisha and adjoining Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand and adjoining north Chhattisgarh during the subsequent two days causing heavy to very heavy rainfall.
There may be scattered heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20cm) with isolated extremely heavy rainfall (>20cm) in the districts of Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Khurdha, Cuttack and Dhenkanal. Also, heavy to very heavy rainfall (7 to 20 cm) is very likely at isolated places in Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Gajapati and Ganjam.
Impact and Action Suqqested
- Temporarily water logging likely in low lying areas and under pass road
- Poor visibility during intense spell of rain and traffic congestionJn urban areas
- Some damages to kutcha road and possibility of wall collapsed of vulnerable kutcha houses.
- Some damages to vegetable and horticultural crops likely
- Avoid staying in vulnerable kutcha houses.
- Advisory on traffic congestion may be followed before leaving for your destination
- Arrangement of drainage of excess water from nursery bed preparations for sowing of paddy crops, seed collection may be done.
- Mud slides/landslides in vulnerable hilly areas
It is, therefore, requested to keep the administrative machinery in readiness to meet any eventuality, the letter read.
