Orissa Floods 2008

Flood Relief Work in Orissa by Pratham and AID India

orissafloods — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:24:24 +0000

Response from Pratham & AID India

- A summary of flood damage is given in appendix

Excerpts:

Acting promptly AID India assured to release rupees 6.0 lakhs for the immediate relief work. Employees of Pratham Orissa donated their one day salary amounting to Rs. 47,227.00 for the flood relief. Locally mobilized / collected Rs. 25,272.00 through individual donation/collections from various towns, distrit headquarters etc. A lot of donation was collected by volunteers in kind also.

In this crucial hour of need our volunteers contributed immensely by providing suo motto help from their side to help in facilitating and distributing the relief materials.

Our efforts to mitigate the sufferings of the people were mainly concentrated on the following Points.

To Mobilize Pratham volunteers & to assist them to visit the flood ravaged areas to actively participate, contribute and help the Govt. & local People in the flood relief, rescue & resettlement programme.
To despatch dry foods such as Chuda (pressed/flattened rice), Sugar, Biscuits etc to flood affected areas and to distribute them to the flood victims.
To assist and help the authorities of local government in providing cooked foods & in some places where we felt it necessary to provide cooked food from our side, we had provided the same.
To conduct medical camps in the flood ravaged areas.
To spread the awareness among the people about various compensatory measures taken by the Govt. and to help those people who need our help and assistance in this regard.
To act as a resource center to the administration in providing critical information regarding relief, rescue & resettlement programme in one hand and to act as a medium to ventilate or channelize the grievances, the need & aspiration of the people to the administration on the other hand.
To help distributing through our volunteers Bleaching Powder, Halogen Tablets, ORS, Medicines as and when required by the local administrative authorities and in some places from our sides also

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DAV School provides relief to flood victims

orissafloods — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:19:24 +0000

Pioneer News Service

A 40-member team of Pokhariput DAV School, under the leadership of School Disaster Management Committee chief Subhranshu Mohan Dash, provided relief to the flood victims at Nirmala village near Teisipur in Puri district during Dussehra. They distributed flattened rice, rice, sugar, polythene, clothes, matchboxes and candles among the affected villagers.

JSPL donates Rs 2 crore for houses of flood victims

orissafloods — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:44:48 +0000

Pioneer News Service | Bhubaneswar

Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL), one of the leading industrial houses of the country, has contributed Rs 2 crore to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for reconstruction of the houses for the flood-affected people.

The cheque of the amount was handed over by the company’s Vice-Chairman-cum-Chief Executive Officer Vikrant Gujral and Executive Director Rajesh Kumar Jha to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday.

Flood hit farmer ends life

orissafloods — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:29:07 +0000

Kendrapada

Devastated over total crops loss during the recent floods, a 50-year-old farmer in Kendrapada district committed suicide on Friday.
The deceased, Nagamani Swain of Hatia village of Manikunda gram panchayat, was owner of an acre farmland, had also taken to tenant farming of paddy crops in two more acres from other landowners that was completely damaged in the recent floods.

To add to his woes, the flood-induced sand-casting of the field turned it unfit for cultivation of the rabi crop.

He had borrowed heavily from moneylenders to raise the kharif crop and his inability to repay the loans drove him to end his life. He took pesticides to commit suicide. He was rushed to the district headquarters hospital at Kendrapara where he died while undergoing treatment.

Had there been no flood my husband might have been able to repay the money by selling the paddy after the harvest. He committed suicide due to crop loss. Now, after the demise of our family head, I and my three children are groping in the dark, said Nagamani’s wife with tears rolling down her cheeks.
A high-level district official said the alleged suicide of the farmer is being inquired into. Measures are afoot to compensate his family members, he added.

Flood Report

orissafloods — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:27:16 +0000

by Chinmaya Kumar Mohapatra

Flood Report (PDF)

Pratham Odisha Keonjhar team collected relief from Keonjhar town

orissafloods — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:37:40 +0000

Keonjhar: Pratham Odisha, Keonjhar has undertaken relief operation for the flood victims in the coastal regions of the State. The team has collected Rs 27000.00 and 4 quintals of rice, Chuda relief at various places of Orissa. Team of Volunteers comprised of Ms Suchitra Sen, Pravati Roul, Sunil Giri, Panchanan, Gyanaranjan, Sudarsan take the leadership for the collection of relief from Keonjhar town.

Ashok kumar Paikaray

OMC provides relief for second time

orissafloods — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:36:46 +0000

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) distributed relief materials for the second time in the flood-affected areas. Three trucks were used for distributing the relief commodities, one of them in Badabetra gram panchayat under Garadpur block of Kendrapara district, the second in Bandal panchayat under Banki block of Cuttack district and the other in Teisipur, Mangalpur and Jasuapur panchayats under Pipli block in Puri district. The OMC also organised relief in Avayamukhi panchayat of Delang block and distributed essential commodities such as sarees, towels, chuda, jaggery, biscuits, candles, match boxes and salt.

Nalco provides medical relief to flood victims

orissafloods — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:20:21 +0000

Bhubaneswar: National Aluminium Company Limited (Nalco) has undertaken medical relief operation for the flood victims in the coastal regions of the State. The company has sent a team of doctors and paramedical staffs to examine and provide medical relief at various places of Banki, Delanga and Kanasa blocks. The medical team examined about 2,000 patients and distributed medicines and mineral bottles worth Rs 2 lakh. Team of doctors comprised of Dr Amarjeet Mohanty, Dr Sourav Das and Dr AK Panda, while paramedical staffs included Ranjan Behera, Pitambar Tudu and Pramod Lenka

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CM visits flood-hit areas in Puri dist

orissafloods — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:19:36 +0000

Pioneer News Service | Puri

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inspected the free-meal camp at Indipur under Delang block and interacted with the flood victims, who need running of free kitchen for more days, during his visit to the flood-ravaged areas of Puri district on Saturday. The people are homeless as their villages remained marooned till date.

Naveen Patnaik extended the relief for another seven days and assured people for immediate provision of house damage funds. Naveen Patnaik asked the officials to restore the power supply as soon as possible and directed the engineers to repair the damaged roads. The CM was accompanied by local legislator Pradeep Maharathy, Satyabadi MLA Ramaranjan Baliarsingh, Zilla Parishad president Sankarshan Parida, District Magistrate BJ Sharma and SP Asit Kumar Panigrahi

Aditya Birla Group gears up for flood relief measures

orissafloods — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:19:04 +0000

Bhubaneswar: As a mark of solidarity with the flood-affected people of the state, the Aditya Birla Group has announced a contribution of Rs 5 crore towards relief and reconstruction purpose.
The contribution is the highest one, so far, by any corporate house as aid for the flood-hit populace in the state.
The Group’s contribution was conveyed to the chief secretary by Ravi Kastia, managing director of Essel mining and industries limited, an Aditya Birla Group Company recently.
Such a contribution was in response to the appeal of the chief secretary in a meeting of the industries at the state secretariat few days ago, a company spokesman said.