Assam flood situation continues to be miserable

The flood circumstance in Assam kept on excess bleak on Sunday with over 2.2 million individuals actually impacted in 28 districts, said an administration report issued in the evening.

With five additional passings due to suffocating including that of one lady and four kids recorded during the day, the all out loss of life in floods and avalanches in the state since April rose to 127. Search is in progress to find two men swept away by flood waters in Darrang and Dhubri regions on Sunday.

At present 217,413 individuals dislodged by floods are taking shelter in 680 relief camps set up in 23 of the impacted districts. Of them almost half (1,09,623) are dwelling in 230 camps in one of the most obviously terrible impacted Cachar district alone.

Most parts of the state’s second greatest metropolitan place, Silchar, the central command of Cachar distrticts in Barak Valley, kept on leftover overwhelmed under 5-8 feet of water and almost 200,000 occupants confronting lack of food, water and different basics for the seventh consecutive day.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma embraced a visit to Silchar town in Barak Valley on Sunday morning (his second visit to the base camp on Cachar districts in four days) and said salvage and help work considering extraordinary flooding has been gigantic.

Since Monday following spilling over of Barak River, which streams along the town, and a man-made break on the Betukhandi embankment (situated around 6 km away) on Sunday, huge scope flooding which occupants say is concealed in the town’s set of experiences has impacted residents.

“Under the present circumstance, which is unprecedented, the Cachar district administration and all other agencies involved in rescue and relief have done tremendous work,” Sarma told writers in Silchar.

On Thursday, the CM had embraced a flying study of the districts and collaborated with authorities of three regions in Barak Valley, Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi, which are impacted by floods.

On Sunday, Sarma studied a few overflowed regions in Silchar on an expanded boat and furthermore addressed impacted people. Cachar agent official Keerthi Jalli went with the CM.
“I think the situation in Silchar will improve slowly. If there is no fresh rainfall, flooding in the town should come down in the next 48 hours,” Sarma said.