State government send officers and doctors to ground zero to tackle cyclone Yaas

As Cyclone Yaas inches nearer to Odisha coast, the state authorities on Monday deployed some senior IAS and IPS officers in addition to engineers and officers from totally different departments in Balasore, Bhadrak, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada and Mayurbhanj districts to supervise the rescue and restoration actions.

Many doctors too have been despatched to Balasore and Bhadrak the place the cyclone is probably going to trigger the utmost injury.

Sports secretary Vishal Dev and inspector normal of police (jap vary) Diptesh Pattanayak have been assigned to oversee the operations in Balasore; Food provides secretary V V Yadav and inspector normal of police (crime department) Amitendra Nath Sinha would take care of Bhadrak; industries secretary Hemant Sharma and deputy inspector normal (central vary) J N Pankaj have been despatched to Kendrapada; larger training secretary Saswat Mishra and inspector normal (operations) Amitabh Thakur have been stationed in Jagatsinghpur; and agriculture particular secretary Suresh Kumar Vashishth and deputy inspector normal (particular intelligence wing) Anirudh Kumar Singh have been despatched to Mayurbhanj.

The state works division has despatched Anil Kant Tripathy (engineer-in-chief, civil) to Balasore, Pradip Kumar Samal (chief engineer, OSHB) to Bhadrak, Gaurang Charan Sahu (chief engineer, e-procurement) to Jagatsinghpur, Jibanananda Nayak (chief engineer, analysis improvement & high quality wing) to Kendrapada and Bibhudendra Meher (superintending engineer, NH circle, Keonjhar) to Mayurbhanj district to supervise restoration work.

The authorities has despatched extra doctors to Balasore and Bhadrak to guarantee clean administration of Covid-related work and therapy of sufferers in the course of the cyclone. “We have sent ten interns each from the SCB medical college and hospital in Cuttack sent to Balasore and Bhadrak. Besides, some post PG medical officers have been sent to the two districts,” extra chief secretary (well being) Pradipta Mohaptra mentioned.

The housing and concrete improvement division has deployed eight senior officers in Balasore and Bhadrak to help the involved civic our bodies in managing the cyclone. “We have also opened a dedicated control room at the state urban development agency (SUDA) opened in Bhubaneswar to address the grievances relating to Cyclone Yaas,” an officer of the housing and concrete improvement division mentioned.