16 May 2021: PIB Summary & Analysis

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Sikkim Statehood Day
2. National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC)

1. Sikkim Statehood Day

Context:

PM greeted the people of Sikkim on their Statehood Day.

Know more about how Sikkim became India’s 22^nd state in This Day in History dated May 16.

2. National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC)

Context:

Cabinet Secretary chaired National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) meeting on Cyclone Tauktae.

About the National Crisis Management Committee:

• The NCMC is a committee set up by the Government of India in the wake of a natural calamity for effective coordination and implementation of relief measures and operations.
• It is headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
• In India, the NCMC and the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) are the two major committees involved in top-level decision making with respect to Disaster Management (DM).
• Key functions of the NCMC:
  • Overseeing the command, control and coordination of the disaster response.
  • Giving directions to the crisis management group as necessary.
• The committee is chaired by the Cabinet Secretary and has the secretaries of various ministries or departments with disaster management responsibilities as members.

Cyclone Tauktae:

• Tauktae is the fourth cyclone in consecutive years to have developed in the Arabian Sea, that too in the pre-monsoon period (April to June).
• Tauktae has been intensifying very rapidly. From a depression formed in the southeast Arabian Sea on May 14 morning, it strengthened into a ‘very severe cyclonic storm’ by the early hours of May 16.
• The IMD has further predicted that Cyclone Tauktae will turn into an extremely severe cyclonic storm.
• The coastal districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat are on high alert and people have been evacuated from vulnerable areas.
• Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa leaving about ten people dead and about a hundred damaged houses.
• The cyclone is expected to hit Gujarat on the 17^th and the forecast is that it will reduce in intensity then.

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