Odisha CM dedicates 100 Multi-purpose Calamity Shelter Units

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today dedicated 100 multi-purpose shelter houses to the people of Odisha for use during natural calamities like floods and cyclones.

Keeping an eye on the situation faced by the people of Odisha during the super cyclone in 1999, which was a huge loss to the state, the government has built these multi-purpose shelter houses in several districts of the state.

Patnaik said that, the State government is now well prepared to face any kind of situation caused by the floods and cyclones.

There are already 526 multi-purpose shelter houses in the state, 100 new shelters are added to it. More shelter houses are under construction and the state will have 879 multi-purpose shelter houses by the end of 2016, said the Chief Minister.

The new 100 multi-purpose shelter houses are located in Puri, Ganjam, Balasore, Bhadrak and Kendrapara, Malkangiri, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Boudh, Jajpur, Bargarh, Kalahandi, Nayagarh and Subarnapur.