The West Bengal and Odisha governments have been bracing to deal with the impact of the cyclone.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a high-level meeting on Sunday with the DMs and SPs of and disaster management teams on cyclone-related preparedness.
Mamata herself would stay put in a special control room set up at a building called "Upanna" adjacent to "Nabanna", the state secretariat, on May 25 and 26 and monitor the ground situation 24X7 following the onset of Yaas.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too chaired a high-level meeting to review the preparedness of the state and central agencies to deal with the situation, and called for a timely evacuation of those involved in offshore activities.