Flood situation in Assam improves slowly, 130K people still affected

The flood situation in Assam improved on Sunday with the number of people reeling under the deluge decreasing to 1.30 lakh in 10 districts, officials said. Two major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, continued to flow above the danger level. A central team, comprising top officials from various ministries, visited the state to assess the damage caused by two waves of floods this year. Over 1.30 lakh people in 23 revenue circles and 423 villages across 10 districts remain affected in the state, the officials said. The affected districts are Kamrup, Morigaon, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Golaghat, Nagaon, Dhemaji, Goalpara, Kamrup Metropolitan and Cachar. Nagaon is the worst-hit district with more than 72,000 people still reeling under the deluge. Till Friday, the number of flood-hit people was 2.07 lakh in 10 districts. The toll in this year's flood, landslide, lightning and storm stands at 113. More than 9,000 people are taking shelter in 46 camps, while another 18 relief distributio