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India, Odisha: 468 lives lost to natural disasters in 2017-2018

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 Natural disasters such as flood, drought, cyclone and lightning among others claimed 468 lives during 2017-2018, the data from latest Odisha Economic Survey tabled in the Odisha Assembly recently highlighted.

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The economic growth of the state turned negative (-4.85 per cent) during the drought year of 1996-97. Similarly in the post devastating super cyclone of 1999, GSDP growth rate was -1.72 per cent in the succeeding year.

After two consecutive cyclone and floods in 2013 and 2014, the growth rate plummeted to 1.8 per cent in 2014-15 in comparison to a high growth rate of 9.3 per cent in 2013-14.

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