GUWAHATI/SILCHAR/IMPHAL: The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) recorded six extra deaths on Tuesday-two in Cachar and 4 in Karimganj district of Barak Valley.
However, with flood waters receding in Golaghat district on Tuesday, the total selection of districts affected by floods came down to five from six. Nagaon, Hojai, Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj continued to stay beneath water on Tuesday. More than 5. 64 lakh persons are within the grip of floods with over 1.57 lakh taking refuge in aid camps.
Principal secretary, revenue and disaster control, and chief government officer of Assam state disaster control authority, Rajesh Prasad, visited three districts of the Barak Valley and assessed the damages and checked aid and rescue operations.
Prasad held separate high degree conferences with DCs and senior officials of the civil and police administration. He asked the officials of the departments concerned, specifically health and public health engineering, to pitch in to supply aid and succour to the flood hit. He assured health officials that he would glance into the shortage of doctors around the district. Prasad said doctors from the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital can be despatched if required.
Prasad said the state govt is taking steps to fix the embankments throughout Barak and Brahmaputra valleys. "The state government has requested the Centre for a facelift of the embankments. We are demanding the design of a road-cum-embankment that would get detached during floods and help in rural connectivity," he said.
Prasad, who may be the CEO of ASDMA, visited the affected spaces and the camps. He said steps can be taken to supply proper healthcare for the sufferers within the camps and paediatricians from the Silchar Medical College and Hospital can be engaged. He added that many roads had been broken and that they would means appropriate government for the repair of those stretches.
Sources within the district disaster control authority said that as many as eight other people died within the floods and an ex gratia quantity of Rs 4 lakh can be paid to the kinfolk. He said monetary assistance can be provided to people who had misplaced their properties and livestock.
The flood state of affairs within the districts stepped forward prior to now 48 hours with all rivers flowing below the risk degree. The Assam Rifles, Army and CRPF had been, however, on standby for exigencies. On receipt of track fit certificates for the running of trains over the flood affected Panchgram-Katakhal phase near Silchar, train services and products resumed within the Badapur-Silchar phase on Tuesday. The 15943 UP Silchar-Dibrugarh Express left Silchar on Tuesday as scheduled while the Sealdah-Silchar Kanchenjungha Express additionally arrived at Silchar on agenda. The 15612 Dn Silchar-Guwahati Express will even start from Silchar on Wednesday as scheduled, said an NFR spokesman.
In Manipur, various govt and civil organisations continued to extend monetary assistance to other people affected by the recent floods within the state throughout the Chief Minister's Relief fund.
On Tuesday, two other groups donated a total of Rs 1,62,250. Of the quantity, Rs 1,42,250 was once donated via College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroisemba. The Institute of Driver Training and Research Centre, Manipur, gave Rs 20,000 . Biren Singh, who gained the quantity, thanked the donors for generously contributing to lend a hand flood-affected other people.
Though the flood state of affairs in some parts of the state is improving, some spaces are still inundated.
Altogether 1,80,102 other people throughout 10 districts have been hit via the floods, said a remark issued via the Manipur knowledge and public members of the family division. The floods claimed seven lives and one individual continues to be lacking, it said.
However, with flood waters receding in Golaghat district on Tuesday, the total selection of districts affected by floods came down to five from six. Nagaon, Hojai, Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj continued to stay beneath water on Tuesday. More than 5. 64 lakh persons are within the grip of floods with over 1.57 lakh taking refuge in aid camps.
Principal secretary, revenue and disaster control, and chief government officer of Assam state disaster control authority, Rajesh Prasad, visited three districts of the Barak Valley and assessed the damages and checked aid and rescue operations.
Prasad held separate high degree conferences with DCs and senior officials of the civil and police administration. He asked the officials of the departments concerned, specifically health and public health engineering, to pitch in to supply aid and succour to the flood hit. He assured health officials that he would glance into the shortage of doctors around the district. Prasad said doctors from the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital can be despatched if required.
Prasad said the state govt is taking steps to fix the embankments throughout Barak and Brahmaputra valleys. "The state government has requested the Centre for a facelift of the embankments. We are demanding the design of a road-cum-embankment that would get detached during floods and help in rural connectivity," he said.
Prasad, who may be the CEO of ASDMA, visited the affected spaces and the camps. He said steps can be taken to supply proper healthcare for the sufferers within the camps and paediatricians from the Silchar Medical College and Hospital can be engaged. He added that many roads had been broken and that they would means appropriate government for the repair of those stretches.
Sources within the district disaster control authority said that as many as eight other people died within the floods and an ex gratia quantity of Rs 4 lakh can be paid to the kinfolk. He said monetary assistance can be provided to people who had misplaced their properties and livestock.
The flood state of affairs within the districts stepped forward prior to now 48 hours with all rivers flowing below the risk degree. The Assam Rifles, Army and CRPF had been, however, on standby for exigencies. On receipt of track fit certificates for the running of trains over the flood affected Panchgram-Katakhal phase near Silchar, train services and products resumed within the Badapur-Silchar phase on Tuesday. The 15943 UP Silchar-Dibrugarh Express left Silchar on Tuesday as scheduled while the Sealdah-Silchar Kanchenjungha Express additionally arrived at Silchar on agenda. The 15612 Dn Silchar-Guwahati Express will even start from Silchar on Wednesday as scheduled, said an NFR spokesman.
In Manipur, various govt and civil organisations continued to extend monetary assistance to other people affected by the recent floods within the state throughout the Chief Minister's Relief fund.
On Tuesday, two other groups donated a total of Rs 1,62,250. Of the quantity, Rs 1,42,250 was once donated via College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Iroisemba. The Institute of Driver Training and Research Centre, Manipur, gave Rs 20,000 . Biren Singh, who gained the quantity, thanked the donors for generously contributing to lend a hand flood-affected other people.
Though the flood state of affairs in some parts of the state is improving, some spaces are still inundated.
Altogether 1,80,102 other people throughout 10 districts have been hit via the floods, said a remark issued via the Manipur knowledge and public members of the family division. The floods claimed seven lives and one individual continues to be lacking, it said.
Six more die in Assam, donations pour in for deluge-hit in Manipur
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