16 dead in Odisha in Cyclone Fani, massive restoration work mounted

The death toll in the Cyclone Fani rose to 16 in Odisha Saturday as the government mounted a massive restoration work across 10,000 villages and 52 urban areas ravaged by the storm that pounded coastal parts of the state, affecting nearly one crore people.

The extremely severe cyclonic storm, that made landfall at Puri on Friday, was one of the "rarest of the rare" summer cyclones -- the first to hit Odisha in 43 years and one of the three to hit in the last 150 years
Referring to the devastating Super Cyclone of 1999, Patnaik said, "We are in the process of restoring critical infrastructure."