A holiday for all government and private schools, as well as colleges, on Tuesday (December 3), has been announced due to heavy rainfall caused by Cyclone Fengal, said Puducherry's Education Minister,
Entire Puducherry town is flooded in yesterday’s heavy downpour of 46 cm rainfall, the highest since 2004 when it was 21 cm.
Cyclonic Storm Fengal crossed the North Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts during the early hours of Sunday morning and is likely to continue moving west-southwestward, weakening into a deep depression within the next few hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Moving at a much reduced speed of 6 kmph than the previous 13 kmph, the centre of the cyclonic system would take another three to four hours to cross the coast, the Regional Meteorological Centre said.
President Droupadi Murmu has appointed new Governors in nine states and a new Lieutenant Governor in Puducherry.
When members of the team enquired whether he had taken the vaccine he said in the negative and challenged the health officials to climb the tree and administer him the jab.
The Puducherry administration has also planned a three-day grand programme for New Year.
"The process of receiving nominations which have already begun would be kept in abeyance. Let the anomalies be addressed first and removed before the process is undertaken afresh,"
The Health Department has so far administered 9,51,267 vaccines which included 6,74,697 first dose and the remaining 2,76,530 were the second dose.
Rangasamy is learned to be in favour of former Health Minister, Malladi Krishna Rao who was instrumental in pulling out several leaders from the Puducherry Congress unit paving the way for an AINRC-BJP government.
