State Planning Board member and BJD observer for Gajapati district Rama Chandra Panda has been campaigning at different
Titli-affected areas of Gajapati district since October 12 to oversee relief and rehabilitation work.
Panda visited some of the seriously storm affected villages of Mohana, R Udaygiri and Rayagada blocks. He was also at Dalei Sahi and Kamasing villages under Anagha GP of R Udaygiri where two persons died due to a landslide.
The villagers of these hill slope villages numbering about 200 are taking shelter in Bhunyapada school, who have been provided relief through rice and cash worth Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the deceased persons. The balance relief fund is going to be released soon, sources said. The two persons Puni Behera and Sukuru Dalei reportedly died, Panda said. He discussed with the BDO and other officials to expedite the house survey works and requested the landslide affected villagers to select a site for their re-settlement. Panda also visited villages whose houses were totally destroyed at TR Colony of Ramagiri GP, Raising village of Anagha GP of R Udaygiri block, Podaguma village of Nuagada block and Adaba area of Mohana block. A mass cleaning programme of the storm-affected areas was organised.