All that these city-based volunteers need to help those left devastated by cyclone Fani in Odisha is some logistic support and administrative co-operation, but the response they received, is the least of the things they would have expected.

A Kharghar-based chartered accountant, R K Mahapatra, approached the Human Rights Commission with a complaint that Odisha Bhavan in Mumbai was not allowing them to stock up relief materials that they plan to send to the affected people.