A central team reached here on Tuesday to measure damages caused by Cyclone Ockhi, which affected the southern districts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on November 30.A total of 74 persons have died and according to the Latin Diocese, more than 250 are still missing.The team, correspond with disaster management experts, was led by Vipin Mallik, a top official in the Home Department.While Malik would stay the southern districts, another team would be in Kochi to evaluate the amends caused in other places like Ernakulam, Thrissur, Malappuram districts.

"We will be going around to make our classification and then we will prepare our report," said Malik to reporters here, at the airport.Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week during his visit to the state had assured both the blockade fishing community and the Kerala government of prompt relief and rehabilitation assistance.Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has wanted a Rs 7,340-crore relief package to mitigate the fisher folks' sufferings.

It included compensation for the dead; assistance to the for good disabled and those who suffered injuries; also for construction of homes; educational assistance; writing off loans and other programmes meant for the overall relief for the fisher folks in the state.The central team was visiting here on the same fateful day when 13 years back a tsunami left 172 persons dead in Kollam and Alappuzha districts.