Firefighters clear road blockage after a tree uprooted due to heavy winds and rain ahead of cyclone 'Amphan' landfall, Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha.
Photo by Biswaranjan Mishra
May 3, 2019
A view of the destruction caused by Cyclone Fani after its landfall, in Puri.
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Make-Shift
Venkat Das’s family at their new address
Photograph by Sandeep Sahu
Stormed
Bhoisahi villagers have been living in these temporary ‘homes’
Photograph by Sandeep Sahu
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Photograph by Sashi Das
Volunteers of United Sikhs serve food to the victims of cyclone Fani, in Puri.
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Volunteers of Khalsa AID distribute food to victims of cyclone Fani, in Puri.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah, too, said the Centre was closely 'monitoring cyclone Amphan situation and are in continuous touch with concerned authorities'.
In an age where people stuck in their ways and traditions are holding the world back by refusing to acknowledge changing climate and social norms, this was a refreshing instance of using an age-old tradition to move the world forward.
The severe cyclonic storm Fani made landfall near Puri on May 3, and impacted 14 districts of the state. Nearly 1.65 crore people were affected while 64 people lost their lives.
'Only 1,51,889 out of 2,91,171 affected consumers (52%) have got electricity in Puri district within a month,' the official said, adding that water supply in both urban and rural areas has already been restored.
Manas Ranjan Mishra, a member of the ‘Civil Society Responds to Fani (CSRF), said the affected people, who don't have rations cards, haven't received any aid, despite government's commitment to offer everyone Rs 2,000 and 50 kg rice.
Rendered homeless, Khirod Jena (58), a landless daily wage earner in Raghudeipur village, has been living in 7 feet x 6 feet toilet, along with his spouse and two grown-up daughters.
Lights were also back on the entire 3-km long Bada Danda (Grand Road) from the Jagannath temple gates to the Gundicha temple, the palace of the Gajapati King and the district hospitals, all on the Grand Road.
Inadequate compensation, fast exhausting relief material and discrepancy in assessing damage to property is making villagers in Bhoisahi in Satapada district gasping for their future
Cyclone Fani continues to haunt Puri division. After enduring most of the summer without power, many villagers are bracing for the rains without a proper roof on their heads.
Cyclone Fani took Naveen Patnaik's Odisha government and the common man by surprise. A state that took pride in disaster management was found wanting as basic necessities like power, water and polythene were hard to get
Evacuation was successful, but Bhubaneswar and large swathes of the state continue to be without electricity and water even five days after Cyclone Fani battered Odisha. Has the Naveen Patnaik government done enough?