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Cyclone Yaas: Bengal readies Specific Groups, control rooms

KOLKATA: Taking a cue from the catastrophic consequences of cyclone Amphan that’d struck Bengal just one year before, the state authorities, civic agencies and authorities are chalking out strategies to fight the side consequences of Yaas, that is forecast to create a landfall in the afternoon of May 26. Kolkata Police intends to set up 22 groups of disaster management teams (DMG)therefore to clear trees in streets and electricity lines if they’re uprooted. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and also Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) also have set up groups of trained employees from fundamental services division to perform emergency repair and recovery work. All of the government agencies would organize in each possible means to fight the impacts of the cyclone, stated an offical in Nabanna. Every DMG staff will include five employees, all trained in managing disaster. Police stations are requested to employ temporary tree-cutters, particularly those who played an critical part post-Amphan to clean their wards per year ago. KMC has also shaped borough-wise teams to reduce and eliminate uprooted trees out of thoroughfares. Getting a lesson from the past period, the civic body has made a decision to equip its group with hydraulic ladders that they can cut back and eliminate full-grown trees which may lean against flats, jeopardizing the lives of their occupants. The civic metal have taught that the drainage area officials to maintain all heavy duty pumps prepared for pumping stations to flush stormwater from saturated roads. This aside, a unique control room in the KMC headquarters may operate 24×7 to ensure essential services to taxpayers aren’t interrupted. A particular disaster management group is going to be stationed in the headquarters. The civic body can put up shelters for occupants of low-lying places, particularly areas from the vent branch and away from EM Bypass, which may move under water when it circulates greatly. CESC, also, will set up two fix teams of seven to eight guys in each shield, or even 288 teams around Kolkata, to execute restoration and repair should electricity lines be snapped from the storm. To avoid electrocution, electricity may be temporarily disconnected when high rate winds struck the town, an official said. Throughout Amphan, five men were electrocuted in Behala. The two KMC and BMC have shaped fast response teams for each ward, every featuring trained civic officers and employees from sections that are essential. The BMC can also be opening a control area in its head office. Kolkata Police can also be roping in a group of HAM radio operators in the West Bengal Radio Club (Amateur Club) to help the police’s crisis management staff in rescue and relief work because it may be needed in regions, where cellular network may not operate. KMDA is running tests on flyovers and bridges to prevent any tragedy.

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