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July 18, 2001
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Orissa sends SOS to Centre

Army and Air Force personnel were on Wednesday called out for relief and rescue operations and the Orissa government sent an SOS to the Centre for an ad hoc financial assistance of Rs 200 crore (Rs two billion) as the flood situation in the state worsened with the death toll climbing to 31.

Two MI-8 helicopters of IAS, which arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday afternoon, began air-dropping of food packets in Kantilo area of Nayagarh district where about 10,000 people had taken shelter in the premises of the famous Nilamadhab Temple, Chief Secretary D P Bagchi informed.

Four more choppers would be pressed into service over the next two days, he told reporters.

Four columns of the army were on their way to the flood-hit areas from Ranchi and Ramgarh in Jharkhand and Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who acquainted Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee about the latest situation, urged him to advise the Union finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India to relax the overdraft norms in case of Orissa in view of its precarious financial situation, Bagchi said.

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