State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) personnel rescue people from a flood-affected village in Assam’s Hojai district.
Highlight
- Flood situation worsens in Assam, death toll rises to 9. reached
- Over six lakh people affected by pre-monsoon rains, Army launches rescue operation
- Main rail connectivity in Assam with other northeastern states is suspended for the last 5 days
The flood situation in Assam worsened on Wednesday, with one more death reported in Darrang district, the death toll in the ongoing pre-monsoon floods and landslides in Assam rose to nine as 27 out of 34 districts in the state More than 6.62 lakh people have been affected. , officials said.
According to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority officials, at least 6,62,385 people including 1,25,491 children and 2,44,216 women have been affected and around 8,260 houses in 1,414 villages in 27 districts were partially and completely damaged. Huh.
Rail link remains suspended
In this photo taken between May 12 and May 14, a train is stuck due to flooding of railway tracks due to heavy rains in Dima Hasao district.
The landslides triggered by incessant rains have cut off rail and road connectivity with Assam’s Barak Valley and Dima Hasao districts and neighboring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur. Landslides wreaked havoc in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya and also disrupted road connectivity in many areas.
There is apprehension about the availability of essential commodities, transport fuel and vegetables in some parts of the Northeast region as a lonely railway line has been disrupted for the last five days.
However, officials in Tripura, Mizoram and southern Assam said there are sufficient stocks of essential and transport fuels, and the government will take action against them if anyone or any trader tries to hoard illegally or raise prices.
RPF personnel help passengers cross a railway bridge damaged after heavy rains in Dima Hasao district.
The pre-monsoon flood situation in Assam worsened on Wednesday, affecting 4,03,352 people in 1,089 villages in 26 districts across the state.
One person died in western Assam’s Udalguri district during the last 24 hours, raising the death toll in the ongoing pre-monsoon floods and landslides in Assam to nine, officials of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said. Went.
Officials said 1,676 houses in 1,089 villages in 26 districts were either partially or completely damaged due to the floods. Over 39,558 people have taken shelter in 89 relief camps.
Army engaged in relief work
The most affected districts are Cachar, Dima Hasao, Hojai, Nagaon, Charaideo, Darang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Bajli, Baksa, Vishwanath and Lakhimpur.
More than 1 lakh people have been affected in every district. The army has rescued more than 2,000 people stranded in Hojai district as part of the rescue efforts.
The situation remained grim on the hilly section of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) in Haflong and adjoining areas of Dima Hasao district on Wednesday as rain continued in the hilly area, affecting the Lumding-Badarpur single line railway route.
An official told IANS over phone from the NFR headquarters in Maligaon, “Repair work has been completed at about 12 out of the 56 affected places, but work is yet to start in the major affected areas due to bad weather.”
In this photo taken between May 12 and May 14, the landslide-affected area is due to heavy rains in Dima Hasao district.
NFR officials said uninterrupted rains along with difficult terrain severely affected the restoration and repair work, which could take several weeks.
The Lumding-Badarpur section in Assam is the only rail route connecting Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and the southern part of Assam with the rest of the country.
This rail link has been cut since May 14. Tripura Food and Civil Supplies Department Director Tapan Kumar Das said that though there is sufficient stock of transport fuel, but limited quantity of petrol has been started to be made available from Tuesday.
“Essential goods, transport fuel and other basic items will be transported by road via Assam and Meghalaya. We are in touch with the Assam and Meghalaya governments,” Das told IANS.
In Silchar, BJP Lok Sabha member Rajdeep Roy, MLA Dipayan Chakraborty and Cachar District Deputy Commissioner Kirti Jalli in a joint media briefing appealed to people not to panic as the administration is doing its best to ensure supply of essentials and fuel.
He informed that all the concerned departments are working round the clock so that the flood situation can be handled well.
Meanwhile, in view of the disruption of railway lines, fares for various flights operating between Mizoram, Tripura and southern Assam increased by at least three times the normal fare, leading to flights bound for Kolkata, Delhi and other cities. People were badly affected. India Hawaii.
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