As Cyclone Hudhud is poised to strike the east coast, the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy has assumed a high degree of readiness to provide necessary humanitarian assistance. Four Indian Navy ships are on stand-by to proceed to the most affected areas to undertake Humanitarian Aid Distress Relief, evacuation, as well as to provide logistics support, including medical aid. These are equipped with additional divers, doctors, inflatable rubber boats, helicopters and relief material including food, tentage, clothes, medicines and blankets in quantities sufficient to sustain more than 5,000 personnel.   Six aircraft are on stand-by at Naval Air Station INS Dega to undertake reconnaissance, rescue, casualty evacuation and airdrop of relief material to stranded people. Additionally, 30 diving teams and four platoons with additional relief material are ready to be pressed into action at short notice, the release said.