The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) teams on Friday started the restoration work by removing uprooted trees from the roads in Odisha's coastal district even though the landfall process of severe cyclonic storm Dana still continues, an official said to PTI.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said at 8:23 am that the  "Landfall process continues and the rear sector of the cyclone is entering into the land. The landfall process would continue for the next 1-2 hours. The system is likely to move nearly northwestwards across the north Odisha and weaken gradually into a cyclonic storm by the forenoon of October 25."