As Odisha loses more human lives to snakebites than other natural disasters such as cyclone and flood, the State government has decided to come up with Standard Operating Procedures and institutional capacity building to deal with the menace.
Special Relief Commissioner P. K Jena has convened a meeting of experts drawn from World Bank, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), Assam, Karnataka and Kerala soliciting their views to minimise snakebite deaths.
