Following the severe flooding triggered by Cyclone Arnab across South Odisha, the State Government has taken decisive action to accelerate relief and restoration efforts in the worst-hit Ganjam district.
In a major administrative push, a total of 30 Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) and Odisha Revenue Service (ORS) officers have been deployed to ground zero.
According to official notifications, the Revenue and Disaster Management Department has assigned 20 officers to coordinate and closely monitor the ongoing relief and recovery operations.
The assigned officers include Dinesh Behera, Anita Kumari Sahoo, Sapan Kumar Sahu, Khirod Bihari Bharat Nag, Jubuli Charan Behera, Jashmin Kumar Pradhan, Sushant Kumar Baral, Chittaranjan Das, Bikram Kumar Dora, Kuresh Chandra Jani, Ayushi Pati, Ashwini Kumar Mohapatra, Akshay Kumar Mallick, Sudhir Kumar Nanda, Priyanka Priyadarshini, Kalpana Das, Tanmita Kar, Bikash Ranjan, Subhendu Kumar Jena, and Subhaprakash Kanungo.
Simultaneously, the General Administration (GA) Department has deputed an additional 10 officers—Jyoti Shankar Ray, Gayatri Dutta Nayak, Gadadhar Patra, Dayasindhu Parida, Manoranjan Sahu, Subrat Kumar Jena, Haladhar Sabar, Ansuman Mohapatra, Sipak Kumar Patra, and Manmatha Kumar Nayak—to directly assist the district administration in managing the crisis.
All 30 officers have been instructed to report immediately to the Ganjam Collector. Their deployment will remain in effect until all relief and restoration initiatives are successfully completed.
With hundreds of villages in Ganjam currently marooned by floodwaters in the cyclone’s aftermath, this rapid deployment is expected to significantly streamline aid distribution, ensure effective crisis management, and bring faster relief to affected residents.
