Heavy rain pounds Odisha, deep depression moving towards coast

Almost all parts of the state have received heavy rain since Wednesday, especially the coastal and southern regions.

Manorama Mohanty, the director of the Meteorological Centre here, said the IMD has issued a red alert for Puri, Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Kalahandi, and Kandhamal, where extremely heavy rainfall of above 20 cm may be experienced at isolated places until 8:30 AM on Friday.

The director said that the 16 districts have been categorised under Orange Alert, where heavy to very heavy rainfall of 7 cm to 20 cm could be received till Friday morning. The districts are Malkangiri, Nabarangpur, Bolangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Angul, Dhenkanal, Nayagarh, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Balasore, Mayurbhanj, Jajpur and Kendrapara.