Residents of village Nuagarh in Astarang block in Puri district took shelter in a primary school. The village drew up its own disaster management plan and stocked some drinking water and food as well
Once rescued from Korean company POSCO, Odisha's ecologically rich Khandadhar hills have now been handed over to the state's mining body. Tribal communities in the region gear up for another round of fight to save their rivers and land