Restoration efforts were launched in the early hours of Friday, with NDRF and ODRAF teams clearing roads in affected districts.

Schools in Jharkhand’s East and West Singhbhum, along with Saraikela-Kharsawan districts within the Kolhan division shut on Friday, flights cancelled, brakes on train services.

Cyclone Dana made landfall on the Odisha coast on Thursday night, and the landfall was complete on Friday morning, and the system took at least eight and a half hours to enter the landmass. Heavy rains packed with gusty winds lashed parts of southern West Bengal as the landfall process of the severe cyclonic storm “Dana” continued to tear through the Odisha coast since midnight.