MORE THAN a month after Taukate hit the Saurashtra coast and damaged houses and snapped power and communication lines, around 6,000 residents of Shiyal Bet, a tiny island off the Pipavav port in Amreli district, are still without electricity with officers of the company which distributes power in Saurashtra saying efforts are on to rectify it.
Grid power supply to Shiyal Bet was disrupted on May 17 as the cyclone approached the coast and made landfall between Una in Gir Somnath district and Mahuva in Bhavnagar.
Amreli, lying in between these two districts, had witnessed maximum damage among the three with almost all of its more than 620 villages experiencing blackout.
