With the Supreme Court pulling up the State Government for its poor track record in implementation of food and employment schemes, the State Government has devised management information system (MIS) for tracking starvation and malnutrition cases and action taken at every level of the administration.

The flood situation in Orissa continues to remain grim with all rivers in the Mahanadi system flowing above danger level. An estimated five million people have been affected by the floods while another one million are still marooned in the districts of Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Cuttack, Jajpur, Nayagarh and Puri.