Cyclone Arnab tore through southern Odisha, and the floods that followed knocked out electricity across eight districts — but Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi says the state's power infrastructure is nearly fully back on its feet, with 99.05 percent of affected consumers reconnected as of Monday, 2 November 2026.

Eight Districts, One Mission: Lights Back On

Posting in Odia on X, CM Majhi reported that restoration crews are working on a 'war footing' across the cyclone-battered south of the state. He described the effort as round-the-clock, with administrative and departmental staff deployed without break to reach the remaining 0.95 percent of consumers still without supply.

The districts of Baudh, Rayagada, Malkangiri, and Nabarangpur have achieved 100 percent restoration — a milestone in a region where terrain and flooding typically make last-mile reconnection the hardest stretch of any disaster response.

The Grid Backbone: All 33/11 kV Sub-Stations Operational

Beyond household connections, the CM confirmed that all 33 kV and 11 kV feeders, as well as every 33/11 kV sub-station across the affected zone, have been fully restored to operational status. These are the transmission arteries that carry power from the state grid down to local distribution lines — getting them back is the precondition for every household reconnection that follows.

Cyclone Arnab and the subsequent flooding disrupted this backbone infrastructure across a wide swath of southern Odisha, a region that includes some of the state's most tribal and remote districts. The fact that the high-voltage grid is entirely functional again signals the hardest structural repair is done; what remains is the final-mile work of reconnecting individual consumers.

What the Remaining 0.95 Percent Means on the Ground

A figure of 99.05 percent sounds close to complete — but in a state of Odisha's scale, even a fraction of a percentage point can represent thousands of households, many of them in the remotest pockets of districts like Malkangiri, which shares borders with Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. Administration teams, the CM noted, are working through the night to close that final gap.

Southern Odisha has a long history of cyclone exposure along the Bay of Bengal coastline, and state authorities have repeatedly invested in faster post-disaster power restoration as a key resilience benchmark. The CM's update positions this response as consistent with that institutional priority.

The power lines are almost all live again — the clock is now running on that last fraction of a percent, and Odisha's government has made it clear the job isn't done until every consumer is back on the grid.