Bhadrak, Oct 24: Life is precious; wealth is secondary, said DIG Eastern Range, Odisha Dr. Satyajit Naik on Thursday.
While counseling some residents of the Dhusuri area in the Bhadrak district seeking people’s co-operation in the evacuation process going on for the impending Cyclone Dana, Dr. Naik sermonized the mass who were almost reluctantly denying to pack up for safer places to the cyclone shelter centres, to get rid of the wrath of the Cyclonic System.
Assuring all safety and security of the properties and belongings of the evacuated people, the DIG said that rural patrolling has been beefed up to watch and guard public properties. Local police in collaboration with the Armed Forces specially deployed here for assisting the evacuation process will continue night rotational patrolling in the vacated villages round the clock.
Underlining the preparedness of the police and district admin ahead of the expected landfall of the Cyclone Dana, Dr. Naik said that apart from the district police forces, at least 15 platoons of police, two contingents of NDRF, two teams of ODRAF with well equipped fire fighters, are in place with essential logisticts to handle the post effects of the landfall.
Worth mentioning, evacuation across in the coastal Odisha is yet underway to trasloacate locals from the Cyclone susceptible regions whereas a number of families are avoiding it out of fear and anticipating loss of their belongings left at homes. However, the district admin and police are trying their level best for achieving hundred percent evacuations before the peak hours of the landfall of Dana.
