India, just recently felt the tremors of a disastrous
calamity once again which jolted the whole nation in grief and pain. The
cyclone Hudhud made the whole of Vishakhapatnam slip into pain and devastation
summing up to cause a huge loss of property, land and lives.
Vizag has always been known as a city of destiny.
After coming out of the annihilating effects of 2004 tsunami and the 1977 cyclone,
the city has again been forced in the shackles of devastation. The cyclone
Hudhud, completely ruptured the city’s electricity supply, also stopping the
functioning of its airport an unfortunately also the stoppage of its steel
industry.
More than 22 lakh people in the city had to face the
humongously scaring effects of the Hudhud disaster thereby sending the denizens
of the port city to complete darkness, with no electricity at homes and working
area thereby forcing all to live like primitive humans. Even till Wednesday,
only 5000 households were accommodated with the electricity supply.
One more inauspicious thing is that Visakhapatnam’s most important steel plant giving occupations and livelihood to thousands of
the citizens of the city has been closed and there is no probability of its
opening in the near four to six months. The whole of the Visakhapatnam Steel
Plant is in complete ravages. Main reason behind such condition is that when
the disaster struck the area, the blast furnaces were operating at full blast
and just as the cyclone hit and electricity was snapped the steel was left in
the furnaces only, and now it is next to impossible to extract the steel out of
it. The closing of the steel plant has not only led to destruction of steel but
also of the livelihood of so many people who have been dependent on the plant
for such a long time for all of their money, thereby also hiking the danger of
complete loss of occupation of many people.
The airport facility of this important city has also
been disturbed due to damages sustained by the Visakhapatnam airport. The
airport authorities have said nothing about the reopening of the airports after
the required renovation but have signaled that restoration of airport will
surely take some time due to the heavy damages incurred.
One more hapless thing that took place was the demise
of more than 20 people in the cyclone which shook the whole nation. According
to the government records, the death toll reached around 24 in the Andhra
Pradesh coast.
This is surely a time for pain for the whole nation
but now we need to stand united to support each other in this difficult time. I
am really sad to see such a huge ruin of property and lives and my condolences
go to the family of bereaved and I would like to assure them that the whole
nation stands with them in this difficult hour.
JAI HIND, JAI
BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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