As many as 12,569 houses were damaged in the recent Phailin cyclone and floods in Keonjhar district, according to a primary assessment made by the Revenue department.
Five mud houses under Keonjhar tehsil were fully damaged, while 10 mud houses were half damaged. As many as 675 houses were partially damaged. Similarly, 20 houses were fully damaged and 760 were partially damaged in Ghatgaon tehsil. Under Banspal tehsil, two houses were half damaged and 25 were partially damaged. 334 houses were partially damaged in Saharpada tehsil, while Patna tehsil reported three houses as fully damaged and 475 houses as partly damaged. Ten houses were totally damaged in Telkoi tehsil where 308 were damaged partially.
Thirteen houses in Harichandanpur tehsil were fully damaged and 93 partly damaged. In Champua tehsil, two houses were fully, five half and 48 were partially damaged. Jhumpura tehsil had as many as seven houses fully damaged, five half and 83 partially damaged. Seventeen houses under Barbil tehsil were reported to have been partly damaged. Hatadihi tehsil had five fully damaged houses, 12 half damaged and 290 partially damaged houses, besides 100 huts and 150 cow sheds fully damaged in the cyclone and the floods. The worst-affected Anandpur tehsil listed 100 mud houses as fully damaged and 1,800 houses as partly damaged.
Ghasipura tehsil had 35 pucca houses, 79 mud houses as fully damaged, 54 pucca houses and 177 mud houses partly damaged. There were also many more houses damaged in the storm in the hilly villages, which would be included after a detailed survey. More than Rs 30 crore was needed as compensation under the Government relief code. As per relief guidelines, there are provisions for Rs 70,000 as compensation for fully damaged pucca houses, Rs 15,000 for fully damaged mud houses, Rs 7,300 for partly damaged pucca houses, Rs 3,200 for partly damaged mud houses and Rs 1,200-Rs 2,000 for partially damaged houses.