Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi conducted aerial and ground inspections of deluge-hit districts as torrential monsoon rains caused water levels in the Mahanadi river basin to swell dangerously near warning marks. The state disaster management department issued red alerts for five downstream riparian districts, mobilizing emergency search and rescue teams and deploying motorized power boats to assist vulnerable riverside populations.
Water resources engineers reported that massive upstream inflows forced the opening of dozens of sluice gates at the Hirakud reservoir, releasing hundreds of thousands of cusecs of floodwaters into lower catchment zones. Rural settlements across Cuttack, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, and Kendrapara faced imminent threats of breaching embankments as silted canals struggled to discharge the sudden volume of surging floodwaters.
Chief Minister Majhi instructed district administrations to maintain adequate stockpiles of dry food packets, water purification tablets, and veterinary medicines in designated flood shelters. Health department teams were dispatched to organize mobile medical camps in waterlogged blocks to prevent outbreaks of waterborne diseases as municipal bodies worked to fortify vulnerable earthen dykes.
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