The National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) has directed the central and state agencies to expeditiously restore the telecommunication, power, road and water supply links affected by Cyclone Tauktae.

The decision was taken at a recently held review meeting for the relief-and-rehabilitation efforts undertaken in the aftermath of the Tauktae Cyclone.

The chief secretaries and officials of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, along with senior officers from Lakshadweep, Dadra, and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, participated in the meeting.

Further, officers from various central government ministries such as home, shipping, telecommunications, oil, power, health, food, and public distribution, drinking water and sanitation, the member secretary of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA),among others, also attended the meeting.