More than 1.7 million people in 19 districts of Odisha have been affected with the severe flood claiming 28 lives. Out of 19 districts, 13 districts were on high alert. 877 villages were completely cut off due to flood waters.  Thousands of houses damaged in the flood. Lakhs of people have been evacuated to safer and higher places. 80,720 hectares cultivated land is submerged under water.

Gop block was completely submerged due to a major breach on Kushavadra river.  The preparedness of the district administration to handle a calamity like this can be gauged from the fact that there were not enough boats to reach out to the affected persons even after five days.  People are still staying under open sky without food and other essentials..............

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“I will never forget that fateful day.  We were all at work in the dam site and had just started to return  to our camp site at Dubang (extreme North of Sikkim).  It was around 6 in the evening. Suddenly........

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Today Mr. Debojyoti Chakrabortty and Mr. Anup Sinha, two of CASA staff visited the effected areas of North Sikkim in the district of Mangan. The most devastated area is Tung which is near 18 kms. away from the North Sikkim’s district capital Mangan. Indian Army is trying to reconstruct the road and clearing down the debris from the roadways. The road keeps ascending higher and higher and was getting narrower and steeper as we continued through the journey. Condition of roads remained bad due to continuous landslides that prevented any road work. There was no tarmac in parts of the road and sometimes the jeep had to wade through streams that ran right through the road. As we moved further, the hills seemed to get taller and the valleys deeper.....

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