Gandhinagar: Additional Chief Secretary Pankaj Kumar today in a series of tweets said that Maha cyclone is not going to make landfall along Saurashtra coast.

He said Maha would skirt Diu. Maha is weakening and would pass Saurashtra coast as deep depression only.

Pankaj Kumar further tweeted that rainfall would also be relatively less along Saurashtra as well as South Gujarat coast.

He added, ‘we are continuously monitoring Maha cyclone. No evacuation is required. Our level of preparedness and alertness continues.’

Meanwhile Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) also stated that severe cyclonic storm Maha is very likely to skirt Gujarat’s Saurashtra coast and lie centered around 40 km South of Diu around Nov 7 noon as a deep depression.

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