Assam: Toll due to floods rises to 78, over 53,000 in relief camps
Dhubri is the worst-hit district, with 7,54,791 residents having faced disruptions due to the floods.
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Eight more persons died in Assam on Sunday as the flood situation in the northeastern state persisted. With this, the toll in this year’s floods, landslides and storms in the state rose to 78, reported PTI.
Two deaths each were reported from Dhubri and Nalbari, and one each from Cachar, Goalpara, Dhemaji and Sivsagar, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority bulletin said.
A total of 22,74,289 people in 28 districts of the state have been facing the effects of the flood. Dhubri is the worst-hit district, with 7,54,791 residents having faced disruptions due to floods.
The districts that have reported floods are Kamrup, Nagaon, Cachar, Dhubri, Goalpara, Morigaon, Hailakandi, Bongaigaon, South Salmara, Dibrugarh, Karimganj, Lakhimpur, Hojai, Nalbari, Charaideo, Biswanath, Golaghat, Jorhat, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Sonitpur, Kokrajhar, Majuli, Kamrup (M), Darrang, Sivasagar, Chirang, and Tinsukia.
According to the state disaster management authority, the Brahmaputra river is flowing above the danger mark in the state’s Neamatighat, Tezpur and Dhubri regions.
A total of 53,689 persons are currently in 269 relief camps.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said that authorities are working on a “permanent solution” to the floods.
“Our focus must be on finding a national solution to the Assam Floods unlike those who only want to declare it a national problem,” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader told reporters....
