Concerted Govt efforts, people’s cooperation brings solace for Fani-hit in State

Surjit Kumra Dhal,Bhubaneswar, May 24: The concerted efforts of the State Government and the sincere co-operation of the people have resulted in bringing respite and normalcy in the lives of the affected people.

The collective endeavour of different departments — Housing and Urban Development, Panchayatiraj and Drinking Water, Energy, Health & Family Welfare, Forest & Environment, Revenue & Disaster Management– have brought about remarkable improvement in the life of the affected people. Besides, restoration work is being carried out at fast pace.

Assessment of damage in agriculture and other sectors is being continued and special package has been announced and thus work in similar line is going on. Day in and day out effort is accelerated for energy restoration work in most affected Puri district. More than 60,000 consumers have been supplied with electricity in Puri district.

In Puri district 95.61 pc and in Khurda 99.1pc of beneficiaries have received the cash component. The percentage of such beneficiaries in Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Ranapur Block area of Nayagarh Dist and BMC have been 95pc, 99.31pc, 97.9pc, 93.6pc and 87.4pc respectively.

Nearly 96.7pc,  99pc, 97.34pc, 98.6pc, 98.7pc, 92.2pc and 81.9pc beneficiaries in Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara, Cuttack, Khurda, Ranapur Block area of Nayagarh and BMC respectively have been provided with rice.

As mauch as 93.8pc beneficiaries in Puri district have been given Polythene or cash in lieu of Polythene while the percentage of such beneficiaries has been 87.4pc, 87.4pc and 81.8pc in BMC, Khurda and Ranapur Block.

Similarly, 90pc of beneficiaries have been disbursed additional monthly pension in the affected districts and the percentage of such beneficiaries in Khurda, BMC, Cuttack, Puri, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur has come to 94pc, 64.3pc, 99pc, 84.2pc, 97.5pc and 98pc respectively.

Health and Family Welfare Department is taking all out measures for health services and awareness campaign in the affected areas. 46 nos of medical relief centres are functioning in Puri while 20 doctors and 200 District Multipurpose Health Workers are deployed to provide immediate health services in the affected GPs of Puri and Khurda.

More than 1,69,389 open water sources have been disinfected by now and more than 22,340 sanitation and cleanliness drives have been undertaken by the Gram Kalyan Samitis and other NGOs while more than 28 lakh 55 thousand ORS sachets and around 40 lakh Halogen tablets have been distributed among the cyclone affected people.

As on Thursday, Bank Branches operational in Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Ganjam and Kendrapara are 94.59pc, 98.93pc, 99.24pc, 97.56pc, 99.77pc and 100pc respectively, while ATMs functioning in Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Ganajam and Kendrapara have been 42.55pc, 82.18pc, 83.28pc, 84.13pc, 96.17pc & 87.72pc respectively.

Remarkable achievement has been made in Cuttack, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara district, so far as power restoration is concerned. All the consumers in Cuttack CDD-I and CDD-II division have been supplied with power connection.

In Cuttack CED, 77,554 urban and rural consumers out of 95,599 have been given connection. Till date, 96% of electricity consumers in Cuttack district have been provided with electricity.

While connectivity to all the consumers have been completed in Bhubaneswar BCDD-I Division, in BCDD-II and BED Division, all rural and urban consumers have been provided with power connection. Power Supply in Khurda district has reached upto 94% till date.

All the feeders in JED Division of Jagatsinghpur have been operational and 107345 consumers out of 1,16,215 connected with power in Jagatsinghpur district, which is 95 %. In Paradeep PED, all 24 feeders have been activated, enabling all consumers of this division to get electricity connection.

In Puri, all out effort is being made to restore electricity as early as possible.

Till now 20 feeders out of 56 and 14 feeders out of 28 in PED and NED Division respectively have been operational. More than 60,228 consumers have been supplied with electricity in Puri district.