The State Government is preparing a detailed report on the losses due to the Hudhud to be presented to the Union Government by October 16.
This was stated by Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra here on Tuesday. Accordingly, the Collectors of the concerned districts have been asked to send their reports to the State Government in two days.
The cyclone passed to neighbouring Chhattisgarh on Monday after claiming three lives and damaging about 50,000 thatched houses, electrical infrastructure and roads in four districts of the State.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has asked the Chief Secretary to prepare the damage report soon so that it can be sent to the Centre. Chief Secretary GC Pati, Development Commissioner and ACS to CM, A P Padhi, ACS Revenue Taradatt, ACS Finance UN Behera were present at a meeting.
With power infrastructures like electric poles, transformers having been badly damaged in Gajapati, Koraput, Malkangiri and Nabarangpur districts, restoration work is being done on a war footing, Patnaik said, adding 90 per cent of the work was almost completed by Monday evening.
He said a total of 2,33,271 people had been evacuated to 2,029 shelter homes.The Special Relief Commissioner said that out of the eight cyclone-hit districts in the southern region, four districts, Gajapati, Koraput, Malkangiri and Rayagada, have been worst affected.
According to preliminary reports, 25,000 kutcha houses were damaged in Koraput district, 15,000 in Gajapati, 7,000 in Rayagada and 1,000 in Malkangiri, the SRC said, adding that reports from other districts were awaited.
While there was not much damage in Ganjam, Kandhamal, Nabarangpur and Kalahandi districts, massive uprooting of trees was reported from Koraput, Malkangiri, Gajapati and Nabarangpur, he said.
As the wind speed was about 100 kmph when the Hudhud passed Odisha, there has been substantial damage to electrical infrastructures, Principal Secretary Energy, Suresh Chandra Mohapatra said. For the people in rural and interior parts of the four worst-hit districts, power supply would be restored in three to four days.