Rivers in spate, trigger erosion in many districts

GUWAHATI: The flood state of affairs in the state confirmed indicators of slight development on Saturday with the choice of affected districts coming down to five from six on Friday. No fresh casualty has been reported from the affected districts.

At least 67,449 people from 91 villages throughout Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Charaideo and Karimganj are nonetheless suffering from the floods. According to studies, 67,976 people throughout Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj in the Barak valley and Lakhimpur, Jorhat and Charaideo in upper Assam had been affected on Friday. However, the entire house of inundated croplands has larger from 690 hectare on Friday to 1,101.18 hectare on Saturday.


However, Assam State Disaster Management Authority has reported that Desang river in Sivasagar, Dhansiri river in Golaghat and Jia Bharali river in Sonitpur are nonetheless flowing above the risk level. The rising water level of tributaries of the Brahmaputra has also precipitated erosion at several places in Biswanath, Jorhat and Sivasagar.


At least 33,700 are nonetheless affected in Charaideo, which is the absolute best choice of people to had been affected some of the 5 districts. It is adopted by way of Lakhimpur with 26,534 people affected. Over 500 people from 5 districts have taken shelter in 19 reduction camps. Barak valley, from the place majority of the deaths had been reported, was the worst affected in the present wave of flood that hit the state on June 12, however the state of affairs has considerably progressed now.


As of now, four,600 people nonetheless remain affected in Karimganj district in Barak valley. Including the three casualties because of landslides in Dima Hasao, 32 people have died across the state in the floods this 12 months.
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