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The Odisha government has developed a Real Time Flood Forecasting Model for the entire Mahanadi river basin and set up a State Drought Monitoring Centre (SDMC). The model is supported by the State Climate Change Innovation Programme, since Odisha is vulnerable to multiple types of disasters due to its topography, river networks, sub-tropical littoral location. The state has 11 river basins and the Mahanadi basin is the largest inter-state river basin, Odisha was the first state in the country to implement Climate Change Action plan.