Odisha coming back to regularity after cyclone Fani hi

The banking service has been made operational in certain urban pockets of Puri Bhubaneswar Cuttack Jagtsinghpur and Kendrapara Some bank branches and ATMs started functioning due to the restoration of power and internet service Information and Public Relations secretary Sanjay Singh told reporters while briefing them about postcyclone restoration workSingh said human casualty in the calamity remained unchanged at 41 across the stateThe official said the government has achieved its goal of providing drinking water to all the affected places including the worsthit Puri where the cyclone had made a landfall onMay 3Normal water supply in all the cycloneaffected urban local bodies has been fully restored Special Relief Commissioner SRC B P Sethi saidIn regard to banking service Singh said there are at least 2359 ATMs in the cyclonehit towns of Puri Khurda Bhubaneswar Cuttack Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara Of these 596 ATMs have been made functional by Thursday he saidSingh said of the 1690 bank branches 928 have been operational in Puri Khurda Bhubaneswar Cuttack Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara towns Asked about the banking service in the state capital of Bhubaneswar Singh said there are 707 bank branches in Khurda and Bhubaneswar of which 372 have been operational Of the 1164 ATMs in these two towns 197 have been made operationalSimilarly in Cuttack the official said of the 422 bank branches 260 have been operational and of 593 ATMs people can withdraw cash from 162 In Jagatsinghpur of the 178 bank branches 123 have been operational and 112 ATMs function of the total 196In Kendrapara there are 144 bank branches of which 113 have been made functional Of total 169 ATMs 105 have started delivering services Singh saidMeanwhile the Reserve Bank of India has asked all the operational banks to keep the branches open till 6 pm in the evening to cater to the needs of the people battered by the severecyclonic stormSingh said the state government has also asked the insurance companies to start survey work and ensure that the affected people get compensation without much delayAn unofficial source said that the total amount of insurance claim due to cyclone Fani in coastal Odisha was estimated to be Rs 2000 croreUnion Minister Dharmendra Pradhan also reviewed the postcyclone restoration of train services on Thursday Normalcy is returning in the Khurda division which was severely hit in the cyclone Of total 18 trains running to Puri 10 have started operating he saidAsked about the availability of fuel in Puri town Pradhan said of the 52 fillinga station in the holy town 29 were affected in the calamityTwentytwo of them have been operating in the postcyclone restoration activities he said As the power supply is key to the operation of water supply banking service telecom service health service and ATM operations a state government spokesman said We will be ableto fully restore power supply in the state capital by May 12Singh said power restoration work is picking up with the addition of extra skilled manpower from the states like West Bengal Telangana and Andhra PradeshWhile 80 percent of electricity consumers will get power by May 10 the process will be completed by May 12 in Bhubaneswar Singh said adding that power restoration will bedone in a phased manner in Puri town from May 12Cyclone Fani has damaged five 400 kv towers 21 130 kv towers four 220 kv grids and four 132 kv grids in PuriSimilarly 5030 kilometers of 33 kv lines 38613 km of 11 kv line 11077 distribution transformers and 79485 kms of low tension lines have been damaged in the calamity Over 156lakh new electric poles have been uprooted in the extremely severe Cyclone FaniCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get the latest updates