Assam Flood Situation Worsens, Affected Are Nearly 1.2 Million People
According to an official bulletin, the flood situation in Assam severely worsened on Wednesday, with roughly 1.2 lakh people suffering from the inundation across 10 districts. More than 1,19,800 people were affected by the floods in the districts of Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Sonitpur, and Udalguri, according to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority’s (ASDMA) daily flood report.
Almost 45,000 people in Nalbari are suffering, followed by over 26,500 in Baksa and over 25,000 in Lakhimpur as the worst-affected areas, it said. Over 34,000 individuals in nine districts were affected by flooding as of Tuesday.
In five districts, the government has been running 14 relief camps and 17 relief distribution sites, providing shelter to 2,091 people.
1,280 people have been rescued from various locations by the army, paramilitary forces, NDRF, SDRF, Fire & Emergency Services (F&ES), civil administrations, NGOs, and residents. The ASDMA said that 10,591.85 hectares of cropland had been devastated across Assam, and 780 villages are now under water.
It added that Baksa, Barpeta, Sonitpur, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Morigaon, Nagaon, South Salmara, and Udalguri have all seen significant erosion. It stated that landslides have been observed in Dima Hasao and Kamrup Metropolitan as a result of heavy rain.
In Baksa, Nalbari, Barpeta, Sonitpur, Bongaigaon, Darrang, Chirang, Dhubri, Goalpara, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Udalguri, Dhemaji, and Majuli, flood waters have destroyed embankments, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.
Urban areas were flooded in several locations in the districts of Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup Metropolitan, Kokrajhar, and Nalbari. Beki at Road Bridge, Pagladiya at NT Road Crossing, and Puthimari at NH Road Crossing are tributaries of the Brahmaputra that are running beyond the danger threshold, according to the ASDMA.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a “Orange Alert,” indicating that numerous districts will see very severe to very high rainfall during the next days. Strong low-level Southerly/Southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal to Northeast India during the next two days are quite likely to keep the moisture intrusion going.
“Under its influence, widespread rainfall activity with heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rainfall/thunderstorm with lightning is very likely to continue over the northeast region during the next two days and likely to decrease gradually thereafter,” said the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of IMD in Guwahati.
