On Saturday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh surveyed the flood affected areas of the state, where 36 lakh people have been affected across 28 districts, while 26 people have died due to floods.
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The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Army are running a total of 310 relief camps and 153 relief distribution centres, where nearly 1.5 lakh people have been sheltered from different districts.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh also accompanied the Home Minister. Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav visited the flood-affected Supaul district on Sunday and said, “We are fully prepared to provide relief and rescue the affected people”.
The floods have also damaged crops in 3.39 lakh hectares of land. A total of 52 tehsils of 20 districts and over 800 villages with over two lakh persons are flood affected.
All major rivers of the region including Ghaghra, Sharda, Rapti, Gandak and Saryu are in spate and nearly all of them continue to flow above red mark at most of the places. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) have reported that two people died at Bilasipara and Chapar in Dhubri district, while one lost his life in the Barpeta district.
Assam continued to be ravaged by flood as an estimated 19 lakh people were affected in the state due to heavy rainfall and swelling of rivers triggered by incessant rain in upper catchment areas of Arunachal Pradesh and Bhutan. Senior Assam government officials owned up the mistake when pointed out but tried to shift the blame on “some” DCs who forwarded the picture to the state capital.
Tens of thousands of flood victims have been moved to more than 350 relief camps.
As of now, the affected districts are Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Golaghat, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Dhubri, Darrang, Morigaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Kokrajhar, Dibrugarh, Biswanath, Nagaon, South Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Karbi Anglong and Chirang.
Heavy traffic and jammed roads in the city of Gurgaon brought the lives of daily commuters to a halt.
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