Kumar told newspersons here the Ministry would adopt 169 villages of Kujang block for cyclone-related infrastructure development with fund contributed by all major ports and public sector undertakings. The scheme will have a three-pronged strategy to build approach roads, institutional buildings and tube wells for water supply. The buildings, one in each village, will act as emergency cyclone shelter for any such disaster in future, Kumar said.

An area of about 100 acres would be developed with landfilling, road, water supply and street lights for development of 8,000 small plots for slum dwellers of Paradip. The low income group people can build permanent houseso that they are not repeatedly affected by cyclones, Kumar said.