Mission ‘zero casualty’ a success, declares Odisha CM Majhi after cyclone Dana makes landfall

“Our ngo of zero casualty has been palmy due to the fact that of administrative proactiveness and due to the fact that of timely enactment taken by the authorities government. We person successfully handled the cyclone,” CM Majhi said.

Taking banal of the concern aft landfall, Majhi said roadworthy clearance exercises would beryllium completed by 1 p.m. Friday and that energy proviso successful affected areas would beryllium restored by evening. Flight operations astatine Bhubaneswar Airport person resumed and bid services are expected to beryllium normalised soon.

Crops were besides damaged by the cyclone, and the CM said collectors of affected districts person been asked to taxable harm appraisal reports. The authorities is apt to denote assistance for radical whose crops person been affected and houses damaged.

Hailing the authorities machinery for its palmy absorption of the cyclone, Majhi said this was imaginable owed to administrative proactiveness.

Of the much than 6 lakh radical who were evacuated from susceptible and low-lying areas and accommodated astatine cyclone shelters, galore person started returning to their homes, officials said.

IMD sources said the cyclonic tempest has moved north-northwestwards astatine a velocity of 10 kmph and present laic centred implicit northbound coastal Odisha, astir 30 km northeast of Bhadrak and 50 km north-northwest of Dhamra.

It volition gradually weaken into a heavy depression, resulting successful dense to precise dense rainfall successful bluish and interior pockets of the state. Red alerts for rainfall person been issued successful Jajpur, Bhadrak, Puri, Dhenkanal, Khordha, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, and Angul districts.