Keeping house ruins intact, flood hit villagers wait for govt.

Kendrapara (Orissa) (PTI): After the swelled Chitrotpala has calmed down, Ramakanta Behera is now rummaging through the ruins and accumulated waste of the kutcha house in Udayagiri village, thinking when he would be able to rebuild it.

It's not that Behera does not have the resources to build the house once again. But as the damage assessment exercise is yet to get underway, he has to keep it as it is to showcase the flood-induced damage.

"The very sight of the broken house makes me distressed. But the sarpanch has told me to preserve it till the revenue inspector (RI) visits the village," he says.