Officials said that the extent of damage caused by Friday's cyclone was not yet known though as per preliminary assessment, two deep sea trawlers out of a large number of such vessels which entered the Paradip Port in distress have sunk. Around 50 other fishing boats of Kakinada and Vishakapatnam which entered the port have been damaged. There are other losses including the sinking of a survey launch. According to a press release, a ship inside the port harbour, cranes and some other equipment at the port are safe. An official said that damage to ships was averted by sending them into deep waters after storm warning was received. Efforts are on to clear the channel at the port. The ministry has sought assistance of the Navy and the Coast Guard in restoring the channel.

A relief material and medical team succeeded in reaching Paradip, which was worst hit by the storm, in boats. Further relief material is being sent from Vishakapatnam through naval vessels. A Naval survey vessel is demarcating the channel. Efforts are on to send a floating crane of 10 tonne capacity from Calcutta and a salvage team from Goa to assist the survey vessel. A group of officers from major port trusts have been mobilised to help the Paradip port administration in the restoration works.

According to an official release, five INMARSAT terminals (SAT phone) were rushed to Bhubaneswar on Monday. The Baripada-Sambalpur, Baripada-Rourkela, Dhenkanal-Sambalpur, Nalco-Sambalpur and Talcher-Sambalpur routes were brought back on the National Telecom Network. Repair and rectification operations to set right telecom services in other affected areas of Orissa are being carried out. Telecom links with Bhubaneswar has been restored. The Bhubaneswar Trunk Automatic Exchange (TAX) has been connected to Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Jalandhar through satellite. Connectivity to Bhubaneshwar from Calcutta has also been restored.

A team of engineers from the National Highways Authority has also been dispatched to restore road links to the port. The cyclonic storm caused widespread damage to railway signalling, telecommunication and power supply to railway stations between Puri and Khurda Road, Paradip and Cuttack and Balugaon and Kharagpur on the Howrah-Chennai mainline. Tracks were blocked by trees. Railway microwave tower has been uprooted at Paradip. All communication on the Khurda-Puri, Cuttack-Paradip and Khurda-Bhadrak-Kharagpur sections were affected. The entire Puri-Khurda to Bhadrak and Kharagpur including the Cuttack and Paradip railway line was damaged due to heavy rainfall and wind speeds up to 60 kmph.

By Monday, track restoration work was completed between KhurdaRoad-Bhubaneswar (up line), Vishakapatnam-Bhubaneswar, Talcher-Barang, Barang-Bhubaneswar, Cuttack-Khurda Road on Paradip line and Khurda-Puri section. Special trains are reportedly being run to evacuate stranded passengers. Operations by All India Radio and Doordarshan, blanked out by damage to their installations in the cyclone-hit areas of Orissa, were partially restored on Monday. Information and broadcasting minister Arun Jaitley said that there had been substantial damage. While Doordarshan transmission had been restored, the viewers could not catch it because of disruption in the power supply.

Several radio transmitters had also been badly hit, reducing their reach to a radius of about 30 km from 85 km. While it would take at least another week to restore the transmission to about 50 km, full restoration could take months, Jaitley said.