{"id":311836,"date":"2019-05-02T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311836"},"modified":"2019-05-02T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T10:25:01","slug":"pm-modi-chairs-high-level-meeting-to-review-preparedness-for-cyclone-fani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-chairs-high-level-meeting-to-review-preparedness-for-cyclone-fani\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi chairs high-level meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Fani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311837 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-696x455.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-741x486.jpg 741w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet-643x420.jpg 643w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-meet.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Fani. The meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the PM, the Additional Principal Secretary to the PM, the Home Secretary, and other senior officials from the IMD, NDRF, NDMA and PMO etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cChaired a high-level meeting to review the preparedness relating to Cyclone Fani. The Central Government is ready to provide all possible assistance that would be required. Prayers for the safety and well-being of our citizens,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi was briefed on the likely path of the cyclone, and the ongoing precautionary and preparatory measures being undertaken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These include provision of adequate resources; deployment of teams from NDRF and the Armed Forces; arrangements to provide drinking water; and standby systems to restore power and telecom services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After reviewing the emerging situation, Modi instructed senior officers of the Union Government to maintain close coordination with officers of the affected states, to ensure preventive measures and also to take effective steps for relief and rescue operations, as required.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a high-level meeting to review preparedness for Cyclone Fani. The meeting was attended by the Cabinet Secretary, the Principal Secretary to the PM, the Additional Principal Secretary to the PM, the Home Secretary, and other senior officials from the IMD, NDRF, NDMA and PMO etc. \u201cChaired a high-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11298,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311838,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311836\/revisions\/311838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}