A video has emerged of a team of law enforcement officers and rescuers removing a fallen tree from the roads in eastern India's Odisha state.

The incident was captured after mid-day in Cuttack city of the state.

Visuals showed police officers removing a big branch of the fallen tree to one side of the road, while another team was seen sawing the tree, to facilitate traffic movement.

The state was hit by one of its worst tropical cyclones, Fani, in decades.

Packing winds of speed 130 miles per hour, it made landfall in the state on May 3 at round 8 a.m.

Uprooted trees, toppled mobile towers and cranes, smashed glass windows were a common sight as Fani powered on.

However, in a state of over 40 million people, just nine deaths have been reported so far, spelling out a major success story for the state.

Reports said over one million people, who were within the harm's way, were moved to shelter homes well in advance.

Not just shelter, the government had provided these facilities with food and water too.

An adage says 'once bitten twice shy' and Odisha's story of triumph was based on this very motto.

Two decades earlier, in 1999, a supercyclone hit the state and wiped out thousands of its population.

Taking a lesson from that, the government had planned well in advance and executed it to perfection.

What also aided the operation was the use of technology.

The meteorological department predicted the path of the cyclone accurately and relayed the information to the state government, who then blared warning non-stop, until the vulnerable population was moved out to sa