Saurashtra

Villages and towns in the Saurashtra region have been worst-affected as they received incessant rains for nearly 48 hours.

That was down from initial outages in more than 4,600 villages in Saurashtra and Kutch, where the cyclone made landfall on Thursday night.

The weather office has advised fishing communities to halt operations and the evacuation of people from the coastal areas of Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat.

The state's farm sector is also likely to have taken a hit, including the major mango growing belt of Saurashtra.

Authorities are also concerned about the state's Asiatic lions, an endangered species found only in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat where the cyclone is expected to inflict maximum damage.