Though the flood situation has improved owing to decrease in rainfall during last three days, about 4.79 lakh people of 593 villages under 15 blocks and one urban local body in five districts, Mayurbhanj, Keonjhar, Jajpur, Bhardak and Baleswar, have been affected by the floods.
All three major rivers the Baitarani, the Budhabalang and the Subarnarekha in the northern Odisha which had swelled above danger levels have started receding. Similarly, all other rivers in the State are flowing much below the danger levels, said SRC GVV Sarma.
Meanwhile, water from all marooned villages was cleared excepting 10 villages each under Bhogarai block in Baleswar district and Dasarathpur block in Jajpur district. Most of the evacuated people have returned to their homes excepting 55 persons residing in one relief camps in Bhogarai block.
Efforts are on to repair four breaches occurred near Ganeswarpur in Baitarani in Jajpur district, at Khaljori in Baitarini in Chandabali block of Bhadrak district, near Dahamunda of Bhogarai block in Subarnarekha in Baleswar and near Panchupada in Dasarathpur block in Kani in Jajpur district.
The Collectors of the northern districts have been kept on alert to meet any exigencies in view of the prediction of more rainfall under the influence of cyclonic storm Komen, Sarma said.
So far, three persons have died and one is still missing in the floods, he added.