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Detailed explanation-1: -Immediately after an aerial survey - along with chief minister Mamata Banerjee - of the May 20 devastation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had provided an advance central grant of Rs 1, 000 crore to Bengal, already stretched in battling the Covid pandemic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The funds will be released to West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Sikkim as assistance for the damage caused by cyclones, floods, and landslides. West Bengal will receive Rs 2, 707.77 crore for Cyclone Amphan, which caused widespread destruction in South Bengal districts in late May.

Detailed explanation-3: -They found that cyclone Amphan caused the most damage out of three recent cyclones, with the most mangrove loss (18.8 percent) along shorelines that were eroding over the past 35 years. “Mangroves are known to be resilient to the impact of cyclones to protect the shoreline from getting eroded.

Detailed explanation-4: -It killed around 100 people in the state alone. “Cyclone Amphan was the largest source of displacement in 2020, with 2.4 million displacements in India alone, out of which around 800, 000 was pre-emptive evacuation by the authorities, ” the report says.