With Gujarat braced for landfall, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to conduct a meeting to review the situation related to Cyclone Biparjoy on Monday afternoon, sources were quoted as saying. Meanwhile, fishing activities along the south and north coasts of Gujarat have been suspended.
People were being evacuated by authorities from districts by the sea in view of the predicted landfall. The first Arabian Sea cyclone of the season is likely to make landfall along the Saurashtra-Kutch coastline as a very severe cyclonic storm, officials said on Monday.
Around 1,300 people in coastal Devbhumi Dwarka have been shifted to safer places so far, according to officials.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said in its latest update that the 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' was very likely to move north-northeast and cross Saurashtra and Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coasts between Mandvi (Gujarat) and Karachi (Pakistan) by June 15 noon as a 'very severe cyclonic storm'.
The storm's maximum sustained wind speed is projected to be 125-135 kmph gusting to 150 kmph at the time.
(Inputs from PTI)
