Three days after the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani hit Odisha coast, the State government on Monday reached several villages blocked by uprooted trees and collapsed electrical poles for the first time to find people in dire need of water, food and polythene sheets. When the cyclone warning came in the last week of April, people living in villages and hamlets had stocked food in their houses. The demand for immediate supply of food and other basic materials is growing louder but officials are unable to meet it. To reach them, one has to go 70 km from Puri by road and then undertake an hour of boat journey. Although the State government claimed that power restoration was in full swing, it was a mammoth ask to bring five 400 kv towers, 220 kv towers (27) and 130 KV (21) back to earlier shape.

Source: The Hindu May 06, 2019 18:00 UTC