Govt to conduct Cyclone preparedness meeting Today

Bhubaneswar: Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy will chair a meeting at Lok Seva Bhawan here at 11.30 am on Friday to review the preparedness for the impending cyclone in Bay of Bengal.

Development Commissioner, ACS to Government, Health and Family Welfare department, and Principal Secretaries of Energy, Fisheries, Housing and Urban Development, Panchayati Raj and Water Resources, Higher Education, School and Mass Education, Rural Development, W & CD and Works departments are expected to attend the meeting via video conferencing.

While the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is yet to release the progress and path of cyclone Amphan, experts are predicting that it would make a landfall in Bangladesh.