Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be organising a high-level meeting to review the situation related to cyclone Biparjoy in the afternoon, sources said.Fishing activities along Gujarats south and north coasts have been suspended and authorities were evacuating people in districts by the sea in view of Biparjoy that is likely to make landfall along the Saurashtra-Kutch coasts as a very severe cyclonic storm, officials said on Monday.#WATCH | Maharashtra: High tidal waves witnessed in Mumbai as cyclone #Biparjoy intensified into a severe cyclonic storm.(visuals from Gateway of India) pic.twitter.com/UrnR0sahtE— ANI (@ANI) June 12, 2023 Officials in coastal Devbhumi Dwarka said around 1,300 people have been shifted to safer places so far. In its latest bulletin, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the extremely severe cyclonic storm was very likely to move north-northeast and cross Saurashtra and Kutch and adjoining Pakistan coasts between Mandvi (Gujarat) and Karachi (Pakistan) by the June 15 noon as a very severe cyclonic storm with maximum sustained wind speed of 125-135 kilometres per hours (kmph) gusting to 150 kmph.Cyclone Alert for Saurashtra and Kutch Coast: Orange Message. ESCS BIPARJOY lay at 0830IST today, about 320km SW of Porbandar, 360km SSW of Devbhumi Dwarka, 440km South of Jakhau Port, 440km SSW of Naliya. To cross near Jakhau Port (Gujarat) by noon of 15th June as VSCS. pic.twitter.com/8gHGLHt1XP— India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) June 12, 2023
