Aerial survey conducted by prime minister to access tauktae cyclone in Gujarat

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Respected prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday directed an aerial study of territories influenced by tornado Tauktae in Gujarat and abutting Union Territory of Diu and held a gathering with high-ranking representatives here later to survey the circumstance. 

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, state Chief Secretary Anil Mukim, and Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) Pankaj Kumar were among the individuals who went to the gathering held at GUJSAIL Complex at Ahmedabad Airport, authorities said.

Subsequent to assessing the circumstance, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani told correspondents on Tuesday that notwithstanding an extreme focus twister hitting the state, his administration has figured out how to forestall any significant misfortune to life or property as more than two lakh individuals were at that point moved to more secure places.

Upwards of 45 people lost their lives in twister related occurrences in the state as it left behind a path of obliteration along the coast, evacuating electric shafts, trees and harming a huge number of houses and streets. 

Tauktae set off hefty downpours in numerous parts from the Saurashtra coast to North Gujarat with 46 talukas getting more than 100 mm of the storm, 12 of them recording 150 mm to 175 mm of downpours. 

The twister, ordered as an incredibly extreme cyclonic tempest on Monday, has now debilitated into a downturn and lay focused over south Rajasthan and bordering Gujarat locale on Wednesday morning, the India Meteorological Department said. 

More than 16,000 houses were damaged, in excess of 40,000 trees, and more than 70,000 electric posts removed, while 5,951 towns confronted absolute force power outage because of the cyclonic tempest in Gujarat, boss priest Rupani said.

Leader communicated his total fortitude with every one of the individuals who endured because of the tornado in various pieces of India and communicated profound distress to the families who have lost their kinfolk during the disaster. 

He reported an ex-gratia of Rs. 2 lakh to the closest relative of the expired and Rs. 50,000 to the truly harmed in the tornado in the States of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and the UTs of Daman and Diu, and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 

The Prime Minister said that the Center is working intimately with the influenced state governments in the wake of the circumstance post the typhoon. Prompt monetary help for these states would likewise be given after the separate state governments would impart their evaluations to the Center. 

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PM Modi said that we need to proceed with the concentration towards more logical examinations identifying with calamity the board. He called for dedicating more clarity of mind to upgrading intra-state coordination just as utilizing present-day correspondence methods to guarantee speedier clearing from the influenced territories. 

He additionally pointed out for prompt be dedicated to fixing the harmed houses and properties across influenced territories.