‘Did not expect such extreme rainfall’: EIC on Ganjam floods

Bhubaneswar/Brahmapur: Nearly 300 villages in Odisha’s Ganjam district remain surrounded by floodwaters, with about 2,000 people stranded, after exceptionally heavy rainfall triggered flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Arnab. Speaking at a news conference at Secha Sadan, Engineer-in-Chief Dillip Kumar Raut said authorities had not expected rainfall of such intensity. Patrapur block recorded 546 mm […]

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