Cabinet Secretary chaired National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) meeting on Cyclone Tauktae.
About the National Crisis Management Committee:
◆ The NCMC is a committee set up by the Government of India in the wake of a natural calamity for effective coordination and implementation of relief measures and operations.
◆ It is headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
◆ In India, the NCMC and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) are the two major committees involved in top-level decision making with respect to Disaster Management (DM).
Key functions of the NCMC:
◆ Overseeing the command, control and coordination of the disaster response.
◆ Giving directions to the crisis management group as necessary.
◆ The committee is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and has the secretaries of various ministries or departments with disaster management responsibilities as members.
Cyclone Tauktae:
◆ Tauktae is the fourth cyclone in consecutive years to have developed in the Arabian Sea, that too in the pre-monsoon period (April to June).
◆ Tauktae has been intensifying very rapidly. From a depression formed in the southeast Arabian Sea on May 14 morning, it strengthened into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ by the early hours of May 16.
◆ The IMD has further predicted that Cyclone Tauktae will turn into an extremely severe cyclonic storm.
◆ The coastal districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat are on high alert and people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas.
◆ Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa leaving about ten people dead and about a hundred damaged houses.
◆ The cyclone is expected to hit Gujarat on the 17th and the forecast is that it will reduce in intensity then
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