Adopting the multi-disciplinary, more than 200 children who had fallen into the vicious trap of traffickers and drug abuse have been rescued and rehabilitated in the district in a year-long drive. A total of 15 cases were lodged against brokers and 19 persons have so far been arrested in this regard.
The ex-Maoist identified as Pramod Majhi was arrested from Adava police station on the charge of murdering a man in February last in a sorcery killing.
'It’s centre was located near to Paribheta and Tandiguda locations of Ganjam district, which is near to R Udaygiri area,' the MET office said on its official twitter post.
The administration took more than 32 hours to realize that 16 tribals had been swept away on the day of the cyclone in the Gangabada, while in many other places, landslides and sudden surge in water-level led to many deaths.
Meanwhile, six days after the calamity, the state government admitted to a death toll of 52 in the state and said 10 others were missing.
As many as 1,27,262 people were sheltered in 963 relief centres on Friday, while the NDRF and the Orissa Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) were deployed to speed up rescue and relief operations, Sethi said.
Though heavy rains continued right through the day, most of the other coastal areas were spared as winds speed weren’t as predicted.
