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Flood situation grim in Assam, seven dead
Sunday September 23, 2012 03:18:17 PM,
IANS
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Guwahati: The flood
situation in Assam is grim with over 800,000 people affected in at
least 15 of the 27 districts in the state, officials said Sunday.
Officials said that seven people have died in floods in various
places during the past one week. Over 700 villages have also been
submerged in the affected areas, an official said.
The government has sounded an alert, as water level in most of the
rivers in the state continue to rise owing to incessant rains in
some Upper Assam districts as well as in Arunachal Pradesh.
The flood situation is more serious in Kamrup, Jorhat, Dibrugarh,
Tinsukia, Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts, according to
the official.
A total of 16 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF),
60 army teams and 18 teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF)
have stepped up their relief and rescue efforts in some of the
worst affected districts, the official said.
Four helicopters of the Indian Air Force and army have been
pressed into service in the Sadia subdivision in Tinsukia district
to air drop necessary food items and rescue marooned people.
Ferry services have also been stopped at Sadia and Assam's largest
river island Majuli in Jorhat district as the Brahmaputra river is
flowing above the danger level in many areas. Several villages
have been submerged in Sadia and Majuli.
In Lower Assam, too, flood waters have breached the
Rangia-Goreshwar PWD road at Rangia in Kamrup district Sunday
morning, an official said.
Parts of the Kaziranga National Park, Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
and Dibru-Saikhowa National Park have also been submerged.
Alert has been sounded in the Kaziranga National Park. At least 15
anti-poaching camps of Kaziranga have been submerged, forcing the
security staff to shift to boats in order to keep an eye on
poachers.
Officials from Dispur said that Brahmaputra is flowing above the
danger level mark in Dibrugarh, Nimatighat, Dhemaji, Tezpur and
Dhansirimukh in Kaziranga.
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