SHOPS and business establishments in Gujarat’s Kutch district opened shutters on Saturday in signs of return to normalcy as authorities stepped up efforts to restore electricity in several towns and hundreds of villages battered by cyclone ‘Biparjoy’. The weather system, which hit the landmass near Jakhau port as a very severe cyclonic storm on Thursday evening, turned into a deep depression and will further lose steam to become a depression, India Meteorological Department said in its latest update. However, heavy to very heavy rains will likely continue in many Northern districts of the State, it said. It is not raining in Kutch and the wind speed has also significantly reduced after the cyclone passed through the area, said officials.

 

While the administration has cleared uprooted trees from most of the roads, it is working to restore electricity in towns like Bhuj and Mandvi and many villages, they said. Heavy rainfall in Rajasthan due to cyclone Biparjoy: SEVERAL places in Rajasthan received heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours due to Cyclone Biparjoy, which moved further towards the desert state following its landfall in Gujarat, officials said on Saturday.