Cyclone Biparjoy: CM Bhupendra Patel reviews situation in Gujarat; no casualty, says relief commissioner

Pandey said the chief minister took details of the situation in each district while also giving instructions to fix the affected water supply, communication system, power supply and road damages. Patel also instructed officials to prepare a primary estimate of the damages and start the process of paying cash doles and rendering other financial assistance to the people affected.

Pandey said that owing to the cyclone, 1,137 trees have fallen and 263 roads were closed. All the trees have been removed and 260 roads have been made functional for vehicular traffic. Work is underway on the three other roads.

The release also stated that 5,120 electricity poles had fallen. resulting in power outage in 4,600 villages. Out of them, electricity supply has been re-established in 3,580 villages. And teams of Pashchim Gujarat Vij Corporation Limited (PGVCL) are working hard to re-establish power in the remaining villages.

Pandey also said that in the affected districts, 20 kutcha houses, nine pucca houses and 65 huts were completely damaged, whereas, 474 kutcha houses and two pucca houses suffered partial damages.

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Kutch is still under the effect of Biparjoy, 12 hours after the severe cyclonic storm made landfall at Jakhau port ( Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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"Trees have fallen and power has been cut off as a precautionary measure," Kutch district collector Amit Arora said. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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Naliya and Jakhau in Abdasa and Dayapar in Lakhpat are the worst affected areas (Express Photo by Nirmal harindran)

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Officials said a shepherd and his son were killed after being swept away in a flooded stream near Bhavnagar city. Around 20 of their sheep were also killed in the incident. (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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A water body was flooded in Kutch due to extremely heavy rainfall (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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An NDRF team was seen clearing the uprooted trees (Express Photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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Kutch received 23 mm of rainfall and Amreli received another 14 mm of rainfall. (Express Photo by Bhupendra Rana)

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Trees had fallen, electricity poles got uprooted, blocking roads and causing power outages. (Express photo by Nirmal Harindran)

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NDRF team is constantly working on the rescue opeations. ( Express photo by Bhupendra Rana)

The release stated that as per the forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the districts of Kutch, Devbhumi Dwarka, Patan and Banaskantha are likely to receive heavy rainfall by the time Cyclone Biparjoy crosses Gujarat on Friday evening.

On Thursday and early Friday morning, rain lashed 171 talukas out of the 255 in the state. Earlier on Friday, the IMD said the severe cyclonic storm is “very likely to move nearly northeastwards and weaken gradually into a cyclonic storm over Saurashtra and Kutch around noon and subsequently into a deep depression around June 16 evening.”