Amit Shah Assures Central Support as Lakhs of People Affected by Assam Flood Crisis
Amit Shah Assures Support as Over 4 Lakh Affected in Assam floods; Swelling Rivers and Brahmaputra River Exceeds Danger Level
Amit Shah Assures Support as Over 4 Lakh Affected in Assam floods; Swelling Rivers and Brahmaputra River Exceeds Danger Level
In the last 24 hours, one person drowned in flood waters in Nalbari district taking the death toll to two.
85.2 MT of GR items including packaged drinking water, rice, etc. were air transported today from Guwahati and Jorhat to Silchar.
Flood waters have also inundated at least 77 villages in the Kamrup district's Rangia sub-division, affecting almost 44,000 people.
With a respite in monsoon rains, the situation significantly improved in the first week of August even as 57 lakh people were affected in 5,378 villages in 30 of the state's 33 districts.
It is time now to view the Brahmaputra floods primarily as an ecological as well as a livelihood security issue for Assam and the entire region
State governor professor Jagdish Mukhi recently visited the flood hit Barpeta and Baksa localities where the over-flowing rivers created havoc, rendering thousands of families homeless.
Kohli took to social media on Thursday to announce his support to three organisations which, according to him, have been doing credible work in this regard.
Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) officials said that eight major rivers flowing down from neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, including the Brahmaputra, are in spate.
The Brahmaputra was flowing above the danger level at Nematighat, Tezpur and Dhubri, the Dhansiri in Golaghat and Jia Bharali in Sonitpur.