In the eye of a storm: How Indian bureaucrats got it right

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In the eye of a storm: How Indian bureaucrats got it right

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/eye-storm-indian-bureaucrats-got-155407652.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/mOMtI3Hh3jnihWdtnmVjHQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-14T155407Z_1_CBRE99D187B00_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-CYCLONE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Indian sand artist Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture about Cyclone Phailin that hit Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha" align="left" title="Indian sand artist Pattnaik works on a sand sculpture about Cyclone Phailin that hit Puri in the eastern Indian state of Odisha" border="0" /></a>By Jatindra Das BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - As the fiercest storm to hit India this century barreled across the Bay of Bengal last week, a local mandarin frantically worked the phones from his hot and humid office, leading the charge in an operation to move nearly a million people to safety. &quot;We were telling people: 'Look, you have to choose between death and life',&quot; said Taradatt, who heads the Revenue and Disaster Management Department in the poverty-plagued eastern state of Odisha. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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