Cyclone Montha: aid operations alongside Kakinada coast intensified

The authorities mentioned that greater than 600 boats, together with mechanised boats engaged in fishing within the Bay of Bengal, had returned safely to the shore by Monday (October 27, 2025). Additionally, 142 pregnant girls had been shifted to close by authorities hospitals as a precautionary measure as a result of cyclonic storm “Montha”.

As many as 269 aid camps have been opened, with evacuation actions underway principally alongside the stretch between Kakinada and Uppada, which witnessed heavy winds and rains on Monday. As many as 40 boats and 140 swimmers have been deployed for the aid operation alongside the coast, totally on the Uppada coast. According to sources, greater than 14,500 inmates of all of the welfare hostels had been despatched properties.

Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) and Kakinada district in-charge P. Narayana, chairing a gathering on cyclone preparedness, mentioned that Sri Veera Venkata Satyanarayana Swamy Vari Devasthanam in Annavaram, together with the NGOs Alluri Sitarama Raju and Akshaya Foundation, would provide 10,000 meals packets on the aid camps.

“As many as 80 personnel together with 50 from the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed alongside the Kakinada coast,” he mentioned. A group of 100 personnel of the Electricity Department from the Rayalaseema area have arrived for energy restoration works within the district, he added.

Special groups have been mobilised in Uppada, Kothapalli, Tallarevu, Thondangi and Kakinada Rural areas in expectation of heavy rainfall and erosion of the coast. The police are guarding the Kakinada-Uppada highway which is going through a menace of submergence as a consequence of sea erosion. Most of the aid camps have been opened between Kakinada and Uppada coastal belt, during which important commodities are saved to fulfill the requirement for one week, the Minister mentioned. 

As many as 23 ambulances are able to sort out emergencies in the course of the cyclone. Additionally, medical and well being employees at Pithapuram and Tallarevu Primary Health Centres will probably be dispatched throughout aid operations.

Kakinada District Collector S. Shan Mohan, Kakinada Rajya Sabha MP Sana Sateesh, Kakinada City MLA Tangella Uday Srinivas, Special Officer V.R. Krishna Teja had been current on the preparedness assembly.