Relief

By Rajeev Lochan Rathan: The Panchayat Raj Institution (PRI) members have accused the administration in Gajapati district of failure in providing relief to cyclone victims. The administration should have adopted calamity-hit blocks for…

Two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an interim assistance of Rs 1,000 crore for cyclone-ravaged Andhra Pradesh, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has written a letter to the PM, seeking Rs 500 crore assistance to deal with the…

Press Release: Post cyclone Phailin, there is immense suffering for the slum dwellers of Berhampur. Parts of Ganjam were devastated by the cyclone that hit shores of Odisha at Gopalpur on the night of 12th October. Several houses were…

Bhubaneswar, 15th October: Odisha is now under the spell of both the cyclone and flood. The emergency situation arising out of both these calamities has been kept under control because of timely action for evacuation and relief operations.…

Press Release, Bhubaneswar, 13th Oct, 2013: The cyclone Phailin hit Odisha Coast at about 8.30 to 9PM on 12th October near Gopalpur in the district of Ganjam. Before hitting of cyclone all people from vulnerable areas were evacuated for…

Unlike in 1999, when infrastructure, administration and communication were very poor, which became a hindrance to deal with the severity of the storm and resulted in the death of over 10,000 people in Coastal Odisha, this time the…