Chief Minister Announces Relief Package for People Affected by Cyclone ‘Arnab’

Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi has announced a comprehensive assistance package to bring back the settlements of affected farmers, businessmen, fishermen and common people as well as normal livelihoods.

✅ 50 kilograms of rice along with Rs 2,500 will be provided to the affected families.

✅ Farmers with crop loss of 33% and above will be given an input subsidy of ₹8,500 for maximum 2 hectares of non-irrigated land, ₹17,000 for irrigated land and ₹22,500 for perennial crops.

✅ Minimum input support for perennial crops will be ₹2,500, ₹2,000 for irrigated areas and ₹1,000 for non-irrigated areas.

✅ Farmers will be given minimum ₹2,200 with assistance at the rate of ₹18,000 per hectare to remove sand or soil from the land.

✅ A total of 1,75,000 special minikits (1,20,000 Dal national, 5,000 oil seeds and 50,000 vegetables) will be provided free of charge to the affected farmers.

✅ In the affected area of 2,000 hectares of sugarcane cultivation, Rs 27,500 per hectare for space transplantation or Rs 12,500 per hectares for retun crop management.

✅ During Rabi season 2026-27 farmers will be given 75% subsidy on pesticides and bio-pesticides.

✅ Short term loan of interested farmers in areas with crop loss of 33% or more will be converted into medium term loan and joint liability group will be formed for share farmers and landless.

✅ Financial assistance of ₹1,20,000 in flat areas and ₹1,30,000 in mountainous areas will be available for completely damaged houses.

✅ ₹6,500 assistance will be provided for partially damaged concrete houses, ₹4,000 for partially damaged raw houses, ₹8,000 for cottage houses and ₹3,000 for cottages.

✅ ₹ 2,500 for clothes and ₹ 2,500 for cushions will be provided to families whose houses are completely damaged, flooded or flooded for more than 2 days.

✅ Compensation of ₹37,500 for the death of cow and buffalo, ₹4,000 for sheep, goats and pigs and ₹100 per hen (maximum ₹10,000) will be given.

✅ ₹32,000 assistance will be provided for large cattle and ₹20,000 for small cattle animals.

✅ Subsidy to supply goats or oxen to 1,000 farmers, 5000 dairy farmers as per 100 kilos per animal, maximum 500 kilos of cow-feed and 200 poultry farms affected more than 70% will get rehabilitation support under Chief Minister's Agriculture Initiative.

✅Up to 75% assistance will be given to the affected fish farmers at the rate of ₹1,12,500 per hectare as well as ₹22,500 for the damaged boats and ₹15,000 for the net.

✅ Marine and Chilika fishermen will get ₹60,000 assistance for damaged boats and ₹15,000 for nets.

✅ Maximum ₹1,75,000 assistance per hectare will be given for fish farmers and women SHG community ponds whose damages are broken.

✅ Maximum ₹3 lakh (25%) government subsidy will be given directly to the bank to the affected MSMEs, traders and shopkeepers with loans up to ₹12 lakhs.

✅ Rs.10,000 will be provided for raised shops, temporary stalls or kiosks and Rs.25,000 will be given for shops and commercial establishments.

✅ ₹5,000 extra seed money will be given to all eligible women self-help groups affected by cyclone.

✅ ₹ 5,000 per person assistance will be given to weavers and artisans for replacing machinery and ₹ 5,000 for damaged materials.

✅ Farmers of Eri, Mulberry and Tussar silk will get Rs. 6,000 per hectare, Rs. 7,500 for Muga farmers and Rs. 1,75,000 for completely damaged breeding houses.

✅ Chief Minister's order to immediately repair the irrigation points raised in Odisha in all affected villages before the Rabi season.

✅ Central Inter-Ministerial Committee will visit Odisha on November 2 to assess the damage.

✅ Keeping in mind the possibility of upcoming cyclone 'Murasu', the deployed team is instructed to be alert without leaving the place.