According to preliminary reports, 25,000 kutchha houses were damaged in Koraput district, 15,000 houses in Gajapati, 7,000 in Rayagada and 1,000 houses in Malkagiri, the SRC said adding reports from other districts were awaited.
Though three persons -- two children in Kendrapara district and a fisherman in Puri district -- died due to the cyclone, the state government said it was able to save lives of many people by undertaking timely evacuation of 2,47,829 people to safe shelters.
"Many evacuated people have left for their homes by this evening as the intensity of cyclone died down," deputy special relief commissioner Pravat Ranjan Mohapatra said.