Holiday declared for schools as city gears up to face Cyclone Mandous
The Hindu
Following the latest advisory of the Area Cyclone Warning Centre of the IMD in Chennai, the storm warning signal flag hoisted at the Puducherry Port has been upped by one level to ‘Signal Number Five’ signifying a state of potential danger as the cyclone passes through
A holiday has been declared for all government and private schools in Puducherry and Karaikal on Friday and Saturday as a precautionary measure in view of the cyclone warning issued for the region by the India Meteorological Department.
The two-day holiday was declared on the direction of Education Minister A. Namassivayam, a press note from VG Sivagami, Joint Director of School Education said.
Cyclone Mandous, brewing over the South West Bay of Bengal, is tipped to cross the Chennai-Puducherry region with a maximum sustained wind speed of 65-75 kmph gusting to 85 kmph around midnight of Friday.
Meanwhile, based on the latest advisory of the Area Cyclone Warning Centre of the IMD in Chennai, the storm warning signal flag hoisted at the Puducherry Port has been upped by one level to ‘Signal Number Five’ signifying a state of potential danger as the cyclone passes through.
With heavy rain and high winds forecast for the next couple of days, the government has ramped up contingency measures to tide over the situation.
In addition to deploying three units of the National Disaster Response Force (two teams in Puducherry and one in Karaikal), the administration has set up 238 relief camps to shelter displaced families and made arrangements to provide food to an estimated 75,000 persons every day.