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Utkal varsity launches books on disaster management
Among the eight State-specific natural disasters - lightning, whirlwind, tornado, heavy rain, sunstroke, boat accident, drowning, and snakebite - the booklets have been prepared on drowning.
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People with their belongings on their way to a cyclone shelter home in Balasore district.(File Photo | Biswananath Swain, EPS) By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR : Taking disaster management education ahead, Utkal University has come out with illustrative booklets for rural school students at elementary level to make them understand natural calamities in a simplified manner. The booklets were launched on Sunday on the occasion of World Drowning Prevention Day.
It's been 21 years since super cyclone hit Odisha, resulting in the death of over 10,000 people. Now in 2021, Cyclone Yaas has hit the state but due its robust evacuation mechanism and preparedness, Odisha has managed to contain the damage by a definitive margin.
Around 128 villages are still inundated and teams from the NDRF and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force have been deployed with boats to rescue marooned people
Many areas flooded in four districts; rescue efforts are on
Thousands of people were marooned in four Odisha districts following the rise in the water level in two rivers which were in spate due to cyclone Yaas-induced heavy rains.
While the Subarnarekha river caused limited scale flood in Balasore district, the overflowing waters of the Baitarani river contributed to floods in Bhadrak, Keonjhar and Jajpur districts.
About 20 panchayats under Baliapala, Jaleswar and Bhogarai blocks of Balasore could face flood due to the rising water level in the Subarnarekha. The district administration has urged people living in low lying areas to move to safer places.