This was disclosed on Tuesday by the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) country representative to India, Alan Court. He said the money would be spent on relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction to bring the affected areas back to the mainstream. Stating that UNICEF has accelerated its programme and generalised its attention on the affected areas, he said its priority area would be preventive health of women and children, primary education, water supply and sanitation and child protection. The programme would also cover agriculture.

Self-employment in sanitation is an area UNICEF is looking forward to work on with the help of voluntary organisations and it would take the cue from the West Bengal model. It would undertake this programme initially in two districts to be extended to the rest of the affected districts later.

Apprehending alarming rise in child labour in the State in the post-cyclone scenario, Court indicated that his organisation would devise schemes to prevent new influx and motivate the community to take care of the orphans instead of sending the unfortunate to orphanages. ``We are looking for family-based alternatives for the orphans within the community,'' he added.

He, however, said no enumeration on children rendered orphans due to the cyclone has been done and that the process will start from this week.

PRIMARY EDUCATION: Court, who is currently monitoring the UN activity in the State from here, said the UNICEF aims at concentrating on primary education with a view to improving the quality of education at the elementary level. It would, however, chalk out its final scheme in this regard after seeing what District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) is doing in the cyclone-hit areas. He did not agree that focus should be on secondary education and said ``unless you focus on elementary education, it won't be beneficial''.

One of the key plans UNICEF has, is to provide separate sanitation facilities to boys and girls in the elementary schools.

He attributed the low rate of diarrhoeal death among children in cyclone-affected areas to the special pulse Vitamin A campaign taken up extensively in the State for the first time in the country as well as crucial intervention in the safe water supply and sanitation.

According to him, the UNICEF has already put up about $ 5 million for the cyclone-hit areas and that it is now looking beyond `just relief'.