Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Odisha Government has decided to allow the grocery store and shops dealing with food and essential items to remain open between 7 AM and 1 PM, because of the coming cyclone ‘Yass’ approaching the state.
According to the report, this relaxation shall be applicable on Monday and Tuesday in 10 coastal and adjoining districts. This decision has been taken to allow people more time to stock up on essential items from the market during lockdown before the impending cyclone ‘Yaas’.
An order issued by the Special Relief Commissioner stated that street corner, road-side shops, stand-alone shops, OMFED shops, milk booths dealing with milk and milk products, bread and shops dealing with food and essential items, vegetables, fish, meat, egg and milk are allowed to operate between 7 AM to 1 PM on 24th May 2021 (Monday) and 25th May 2021 (Tuesday) in 10 districts namely Balasore, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Puri, Jajpur, Cuttack and Khordha.
While the cyclone is likely to hit the Odisha-West Bengal coast on May 26 at noon. Weather expert Rajendra Jenamani stated that the deep depression has intensified into a cyclonic storm at 5.30 am today and it remained at about 540 south-southeast from Paradip and 650 km south-southeast from Balasore and the phenomenon was stationary in the last 6 hours. It will move in the north-northwest direction and will intensify into a severe cyclonic storm by May 25 morning and a very severe cyclonic storm by May 26 morning.
He further informed that as per their latest analysis, it is likely to reach the coast between North Odisha and West Bengal in the west-north Bay of Bengal in the early morning on May 26 and make landfall at around noon on the same day.
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