Atleast four people were killed in rain-related incidents in the state, a top state official said on Saturday, reported Reuters. Heavy rain and strong winds hit several districts that led to damaging property and power outages. Atleast 185 houses and huts were affected, said Tamil Nadu’s chief minister, MK Stalin. The storm uprooted 400 trees in the city. As many as 25,000 people, including disaster relief personnel, were involved in the relief work, and more than 9,000 people were moved to safety in 201 relief camps, Stalin said. “We are still assessing damages”, he told reporters, as he visited some of the affected areas.
Rescue work was being expedited in the neighbouring districts of Chengalpet, Kancheepuram and Villupuram. With the cyclone causing damage to electric poles and transformers, power had been suspended in several places, the chief minister said. Estimation of the loss was being done and if required Central assistance will be sought, the Chief Minister added. According to PTI, between 6 am on Friday and 6 am Saturday, 30 domestic and international flights were cancelled as airport operations were affected due to the cyclone.
Cyclonic storm Mandous, which crossed the coast at Mamallapuram near here, has weakened into a deep depression but the weather system impacted the city and its neighbourhoods, uprooting a number of trees.
Around 400 trees fell in the city under the impact of 70 kmph wind speed when the weather system crossed the coast in the intervening night of December 9 and 10, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said.
Four persons were killed, he said without elaborating.
Civic agencies, including the Greater Chennai Corporation here, were involved in removing the fallen trees.
Justice N Anand Venkatesh lauded the Commissionerate of School Education for such measures.
“The Additional Advocate General further submitted that all steps are being taken to ensure the availability of gender-neutral restrooms for the gender non-confirming students.” “Further steps are also being taken to create necessary columns in the application forms in addition to male, female sex so as to enable the students belonging to LGBTQIA+ community to mention their sex,” the judge said, while hearing a case in this connection.
A person cuts a trees that got uprooted in rain and strong winds during Cyclone Mandous landfall, in Chennai in the Southern Indian state of Tamilnadu. (AP)
A recently built wooden ramp for the disabled at Chennai’s Marina beach was damaged by intense waves on account of cyclone Mandous Friday morning.
The 263-metre-long, 3-metre-wide ramp was constructed with a mix of several categories of wood, including Brazilian wood, at a cost of Rs 1.14 crore, according to officials. It was inaugurated by Chepauk MLA and Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son, Udhayanidhi Stalin.
