Click to play videoBhubaneswar: In Orissa over 10 lakh people remain marooned as large areas of the state remain under water. Four people have also lost their lives due to floods so far and the Indian Air Force (IAF) has been air dropping dry food packets, as part of relief operations.
Raging floodwaters also swept away a 40-feet stretch of National Highway No, 60 at Rupsa in Balasore district cutting off most parts of the district.
Vehicle movement on the highway connecting Kolkata has also come to a grinding halt.
More than 10 lakh people in the four districts - Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Bhadrak and Jajpur are completely marooned.
People have left their homes and cattle and have started taking shelter in schools and safer areas.
With no proper food, water or shelter for last three days, the flood victims are finding it hard to survive.
"Flood water has entered our house. We are taking shelter on this road with our children for last three days. But we have not got any relief so far," a flood victim, Babu Behera, says.
Meanwhile the state government has involved the IAF for dropping dry food packets in the areas that are not approachable to the relief workers.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik who made an aerial survey of the flood situation on Thursday has asked the Center to immediately release funds to take up relief work.
"I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday (Thursday) to say that in the last few years our demand for floods and other calamities have been neglected," Patnaik says.
The water in Jalaka and Subarnarekha Rivers are still flowing over the danger mark and most of the other rivers in the affected districts are still in spate.
Train services continue to be disrupted mainly on the Bhubaneswar-Howrah route for the third consecutive day.
Since the depression has become weak now, the Met Department in Bhuabneswar predicts that the torrential rain will stop in another 24 hours.
But even then the flood fury will continue for at least another three days in the affected areas.
(With inputs from Devdas Kundu)
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