{"id":3430,"date":"2018-10-17T06:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T06:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2018-10-17T06:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T06:44:30","slug":"city-based-businessman-shoulders-responsibility-in-supplying-relief-materials-in-cyclone-devastated-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefactnow.com\/city-based-businessman-shoulders-responsibility-in-supplying-relief-materials-in-cyclone-devastated-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"City Based Businessman Shoulders Responsibility in supplying Relief Materials in Cyclone Devastated Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar\/Gajapati: At\u00a0 time when some greedy People\u2019s desperation in making swift money by charging \u00a0Rs 1000\/ hr generator charge to fill the overhead water tank doing rounds<\/p>\n<p>Employees,officials and Volunteers of City based A K Das associates ltd which has been doing commendable work in Disaster Management, are extending their support to the people of Cyclone hit districts.A team of 100 Volunteers of A K Das Associates left capital Bhubaneswar with 4 Truck loads of Biscuits, Flattened Rice, packaged drinking water, Bread, Tarpaulin and Bleaching Powder to flood ravaged interior districts of Ganjam and Gajapati.Where administration have not been able to make much headway<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3431\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefactnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Relief-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefactnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Relief-1.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefactnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Relief-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thefactnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Relief-1.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In these difficult circumstances, providing emergency health relief and aid to the affected citizens has been a real challenge.<\/p>\n<p>A total of about 972 households in 27 villages have received relief supplies so far and efforts are underway to reach out to as many more as possible.\u201dsaid one of Volunteer over Phone<\/p>\n<p>Talking to The Fact Now Mr Amiya Das Managing Director of A K Das Associates said \u201cwe have also sent another team to the affected districts for restoring the power supply \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Notably Das\u2019s company A K Das Associates is into Electrical Transmission Business, He received lots of accolades for restoring instant Power supply in aftermath of 1999 super cyclone and most recently cyclone Phailin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notably Severe cyclonic storm \u2018Titli\u2019 and the torrential rains triggered by it have been affecting normal lives for the past one week. 57 lakh people in 16 districts, 144 blocks, 30 urban local bodies and 7402 villages were affected in this natural disaster. 3.6 lakh people were evacuated and 1614 relief camps were opened.\u201d By Odisha Government<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 26 deaths have been reported in the cyclone and the flood that followed it. 18 deaths have been reported from Gajapati district alone,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhubaneswar\/Gajapati: At\u00a0 time when some greedy People\u2019s desperation in making swift money by charging \u00a0Rs 1000\/ hr generator charge to fill the overhead water tank doing rounds Employees,officials and Volunteers of City based A K Das associates ltd which has been doing commendable work in Disaster Management, are extending their support to the people of 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