When the State got battered by Cyclone Fani, officers and staffs of the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur stood by the cyclone affected villagers of Gadabangara and Ilagangara of Puridistrict. This is one of the numerous occasions when ITR community came forward when the society needed them the most.
A team consisting of 55 officers, staff and support service personnel reached the affected sites on May 15 and set up a medical camp on the same day to meet the urgent need of medical attention of the villagers. About 75 patients got health check up service from expert medical practitioners and were provided with free medicines and nutritional supplements.
Similarly a team of support services led by ITR officers and staff went around the villages and cleaned the surroundings, sprayed disinfectants and pest repellents. At the same time five teams surveyed the area to assess the extent of damage of houses and cattle sheds etc for distribution of tarpaulin and other accessories.
On May 16, with the help of volunteers from the village of Gadabangara, ITR team distributed food packets to all families.LED torchlights, candles, and matchboxes were also distributed to all the 400 families.
The medical camp continued for the second day where about 175 patients were treated with free issue of medicines and free health check-up.
On the following day, tarpaulins and food packets were distributed in the village of Illagangara where 29 families were residing with houses completely damaged by the devastating cyclone. Cleaning, disinfecting and pest repelling operations were continued there as well.
Earlier, immediately after the devastating effect of the cyclone, ITR mobilised its team with five diesel generators of total 1,000-KVA-capacity and accessories to handle critical power requirement of Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Barunei, Khordha and Jatni.
Besides, the precise measurement and predictions made by ITR with the help of the weather radar provided a great help to the people of the State which could avoid casualties at large scale. The entire activities were monitored and supervised by ITR Director Dr BK Das.