keonjhar more than one lakh people of 128 villages of anandpur ghasipura and hatadihi blocks and eight wards in anandapur municipality have been severely affected in the recent floods caused by river baitaranis fury after four days of flood road communication to many villages is yet to be restored while relief continues to elude most of the areas due to swelling waters the hatadihi block is by far the worst floodaffected area of keonjhar district with over 60000 people rendered homeless as heavy rain continues to lash the district many more are being steadily rendered homeless as the villagers mud houses are easily damaged in the rain the villagers can safely be termed marooned as damaged roads and culverts are making communication with these people next to impossible due to lack of supply of polythene the hapless flood victims are living in the open and in their fragile damaged houses tnn thousands of people of ghatagaon block area blocked the nh215 on saturday afternoon demanding polythene they also ransacked the revenue inspectors office emergency officer r c kisku however said adequate polythene and relief has been supplied to floodaffected areas cooked food has also been distributed to flood victims at different shelter camps the administration as well as local representatives have failed to provide relief and drinking water to all the floodaffected areas of the block the villagers are facing acute shortage of food and drinking water the relief material supplied after three days in some areas is not sufficient and thousands of villagers have not received any relief so far said subhransu naik a social activist of the block four orissa disaster rapid action force odraf teams deployed in anandapur ghasipura and hatadihi blocks are not sufficient to rescue the affected people either less than 10 of the flood victims have been provided cooked food so far with shelter in different camps sources said according to the official report about 61752 people of 82 villages of 13 gps in hatadihi block about 15600 people of 20 villages of eight gps in anandpur block about 6000 people of 26 villages of five gps of ghasipura block and about 6420 people of eight wards in anandpur municipality area have been affected in the anandpur subdivision among these only about 8000 people have been provided cooked food at 14 camps in anandpur block about 510 at four camps in hatadihi block and some 6000 people have been accommodated in eight camps in ghasipura block area pcc president niranjan pattnaik and former pcc president jayadev jena visited the floodaffected areas and condemned the district administration as well as the state government for poor distribution of relief