Naveen Patnaik’s government, praised for its handling of the threat of Cyclone Fani, which made landfall on May 3, has assured “all help” to Gujarat, Odisha chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi said. “Gujarat chief secretary Jagdip Narayan Singh called me and discussed the measures to be taken before and after the landfall,” Padhi said. “We have already faced Cyclone Fani and Cyclone Titli (last October). “After the super-cyclone in 1999, Odisha set up the Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority (now the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority). The National Disaster Response Force has deployed 40 teams along the coastal areas of Gujarat and Diu.

Source: The Telegraph June 13, 2019 02:26 UTC