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People sitting in the comforts of Kolkata and other areas of the state will not be able to gauge the massiveness of the destruction. If I am not wrong, there has been a loss of Rs 50,000 crore. "A total of 15 lakh hectares of agricultural land has been damaged, ruining the entire paddy cultivation. She also handed over cheques of Rs 2 lakh each to the families of those who died in the cyclone. Banerjee had on Monday made an aerial survey of the Bululbul-hit Kakdwip, Namkhana and Bakhkhali areas in South 24 Parganas district..