Tag: Odisha Disaster Management

Bhubaneswar: For Odisha, it seems disaster management is limited to evacuation of people before any cyclone. Pest management triggered by unseasonal rainfall looks apparently a Greek to its lexicon of disaster management. When IMD made a forecast of unseasonal rains from October 23 – 25 in as many as 15 districts, the agriculture department is […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday thanked Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for endorsing the coastal state’s disaster preparedness, and said his government always makes efforts to “address the needs” of vulnerable people. Taking to Twitter, Patnaik also said that the state strives for “zero casualty” during disasters. “Thank you @nsitharamanji for endorsing […]