Five lakh people displaced as flood situation grim in Assam

Guwahati: The flood situation in Assam worsened on June 22, with one person killed and nearly five lakh people inundated in 12 districts, an official bulletin said.

As of 22 June, a total of 4,95,799 people have been displaced and one death has been reported from Tamulpur in Assam.
According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), one person died due to floods in Tamulpur of Udalguri district. An ASDMA official said this is the first official record of death due to floods this year.
The report said that more than 4,95,799 people were affected due to floods in Baksa, Barpeta, Chirang, Darrang, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Sonitpur and Udalguri districts.
It added that Barpeta has been the most affected with more than 3,25,600 people affected, followed by Nalbari with more than 77,700 people and Lakhimpur with around 25,700 people affected. As of Wednesday, around 1.2 lakh people were affected by the floods in 10 districts of the state.
The administration is running 83 relief camps in seven districts, where 14,035 people have taken shelter, and 79 relief distribution centers in eight districts.
Paramilitary forces, NDRF, SDRF, Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES), civil administration, NGOs and local people have rescued 561 people from different places. The administration has distributed 1265 quintals of rice, dal, salt and 5269.80 liters of mustard oil to the flood victims during the last 24 hours.
ASDMA said that 1,366 villages are currently under water and 14,091.90 hectares of crop area has been damaged in Assam. It said extensive erosion was observed in Sonitpur, Bongaigaon, Darrang, Dhubri, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nalbari, South Salmara and Udalguri.
Landslides due to heavy rain have been reported at places in Bongaigaon and Dima Hasao. Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by floodwaters in Barpeta, Sonitpur, Darrang, Nalbari, Baksa, Chirang, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Udalguri, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji and Dibrugarh.
Urban areas were inundated at several places in Barpeta, Darrang, Jorhat, Kamrup Metropolitan and Kokrajhar districts. The ASDMA report said that Brahmaputra at Dhubri and Neamatighat, its tributaries Beki at Road Bridge, Manas at NH road crossing, Pagladiya at NT road crossing and Puthimari were flowing above the danger mark. have been.
Due to widespread flooding, more than 3,46,600 domestic animals have been affected across the state.