Oct 12, 2013 16:16 (IST)
Odisha Special Relief Commissioner PK Mahapatra tells NDTV:
- First priority to save lives
- Evacuation is over
- 400,000 people evacuated so far
- Most from Ganjam district
- There was some resistance
- We had force people in some areas
- Communication sets - satellite phones and radios distributed to key points
- We hope causalities will be much less than 1999