Governor visits cyclone-affected areas, reviews relief operations

Purohit held detailed discussions with the Collectors and other officials after monitoring the relief works. He also met with the people and enquired about the damage suffered by them.

He later visited Vellapalayam, Thopputhurai and Maharajapuram and received first-hand information of the damage to coconut groves in the area.

Coming to know that LPG supply was hit in an area, the Governor instructed the officials to take immediate steps and open a retail LPG agency at the earliest to ensure non-stop supply.

He interacted with the people affected and displaced by the calamity. Purohit also inspected the damaged roads and houses, besides directing the authorities to repair a damaged school in the locality.

Meanwhile, a team from the State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party would visit the cyclone-affected districts today to assess the damage caused, the party said on Wednesday.

The team would visit the districts of Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Thanjavur and Dindigul and meet the affected people, State unit president Tamilisai Sounderrajan said in a press statement here.

After the visit, the team would submit a report to the BJP headquarters in the next two or three days, the statement said adding that the team comprises vice-president of the farmers wing G K Nagaraj and secretaries ‘Karu’ Nagarajan and ‘Puratchi’ Kavithasan.

Since the cyclone crossed the coast on November 16, the BJP cadre have been holding medical camps and distributing relief material to the people, the statement added.

The cyclone made landfall near Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district, about 350 km from Chennai, at a speed of upto 120 kmph, leaving a trail of destruction in several districts.