Bhubhaneshwar | Just a few days after Cyclone Fani reached the landfall in Odisha, millions of people are left homeless and without electricity supply. NASA has today uploaded photographs of power outage in the city.
Cyclone Fani is the worst storm to have hit the Indian coast since 1999, killing more than 30 people.
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Almost a million people from the state were evacuated to nearly 5,000 temporary shelters hours before its landfall. Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, and Khurda were among the worst-affected districts.
The Home Ministry on Wednesday said the power situation in eight of the nine cyclone-hit districts of Odisha has improved. “The state government has informed the Centre that situation in eight out of nine districts has improved and power and telecom services are gradually picking up in the worst-affected areas of Puri and Bhubaneswar,” a home ministry statement said.
However, the NASA statement reads that only a few percent of the people have electricity.
“The images on this page are data visualizations of where the lights went out across some of the worst affected areas in Odisha. The images show city lighting on April 30 (before the storm) and on May 5, 2019, two days after Fani made landfall”, it reads.
It also claims that the storm destroyed several transmission towers and uprooted as many as 156,000 utility poles.
The Home Ministry has said that the power would be restored by May 12.
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