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AP: Central team to visit Cyclone Murasu-affected districts to assess loss

Vijayawada, Nov 12 (UNI) A seven-member Central team will visit Cyclone Murasu-affected districts on November 13 and 14 to assess the loss.

The AP Disaster Management Authority MD Prakhar Jain here on Thursday said that the Central team would visit some of the cyclone affected areas in Bapatla, Palnadu, Eluru, East Godavari districts to assess the loss.

Prakhar Jain said that a seven-member Central team—an Inter-Ministerial Central Team led by Chittaranjan Das, Joint Secretary in the union Ministry of Home Affairs, would visit the districts affected by Cyclone Murasu over the next two days to assess the damage on the ground.

The Central Government has appointed the same Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT)—which was tasked with assessing the damages caused by the previous ‘Arnab’ cyclone. The team would also evaluate the damages caused by the Murasu cyclone.
The Central team would divide themselves into two teams and visit the affected district.

One of the Central teams would visit Bapatla district and another team would visit Eluru district on Friday.
The team will visit East Godavari district on Saturday. Later the team members would call on Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday.

The Central team members are Prashant Armorikar, ADC, Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rekharani Kollu, Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Water Resources, CWC, Himalaya Garg, Assistant Director, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Shashank Shekhar Roy, Executive Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Alok Jawahar, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Pranay Garg, Deputy Director, Ministry of Power and Dr. S.V.S.P. Sharma, Scientist 'SF', National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO.
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