PROUT: JULY 2021: NEWS: AMURT Reaches Out to Cyclone Yaas Victims

Cyclone Yaas, which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm", hit the states of West Bengal and Orissa - also known as Odisha - on 26 May, as well as lashing southern Bangladesh. This is the second cyclone to hit the country in a week, after Cyclone Tauktae killed more than 150 people. It comes as India is already struggling to deal with its Covid-19 outbreak.

Yaas lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain as it made landfall in India,  homes and bringing waves that swamped towns. More than one million people were evacuated in the country as the storm approached.

Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team ( AMURT/ AMURTEL) has been doing relief work in the affected areas. AMURT has provided beaten rice, molasses, Milkpowder & biscuits among Yaas cyclone victims at Tusharkhali & Atapur, Sandeshkhali & Dhuchnikhali, Sandeshkhali-2 in North 24 Pargana District.  Cooked food was also  provided to the cyclone victims at the Kanthi-Digha  coastal area of Mednipur. AMURT Volunteers are also engaged in providing food materials and cleaning the roads in Balasore and other Districts Odisha.  AMURTEL has also set up mobile medical camps and provided free allopathic and homeopathic medicines to thousands of cyclone victims so far.

 More than 10,000 victims have been benefited by AMURT relief activities in the past few days. Acharya Bhodhisattananda Avadhuta, Acharya Pramateshananda Avadhuta, Acharya Subhadiipananda Avadhuta, Acarya Nityatiirthananda Avadhuta,  Acarya Shivapremananda Avadhuta, Acharya Sevabratanananda Avadhuta, Acharya Chiragatananda Avadhuta ara actively engaged in providing relief to the needy people. AMURT is also running four Relief camps at Contai Block in Medinipur District. Acharya Subhadiipananda Avadhuta ,DS & Dits of  EastMedinipur along with Subhendu Ghosh are engaged in providing relief to the cyclone victims in North 24 Pargana and Mednipur Districts. AMURT volunteers are also sanitizing different areas, especially the markets and police stations of Kolkata. Sanitization work is also going on in Anand Nagar in Purulia district.  Acharya Uditananda Avadhuta is leading sanitization work.