The flood condition in Assam remained critical on Wednesday, with nearly 1.20 lakh people affected in 20 districts by the deluge. According to the reports of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), following torrential rains in Assam, other neighbouring states and the neighbouring country Bhutan, the water levels of several rivers are flowing above the danger level mark and inundated new areas.
The water level of the Beki River is flowing above the danger level mark at Road Bridge, Pagladiya at Nt Road Crossing and Puthimari River at Nh Road Crossing. 780 villages under 45 revenue villages of Bajali, Baksa, Barpeta, Biswanath, Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Hojai, Kamrup, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sonitpur, Tamulpur, Udalguri districts are affected by flood and urban floods have also been reported Bajali, Darrang, Kamrup (Metro), Kokrajhar and Nalbari districts. As per the ASDMA flood report, “44707 people have been affected alone in Nalbari district followed by 26571 people in Baksa, 25096 people in Lakhimpur, 15610 people in Tamulpur, 3840 people in Barpeta district.”
The district’s administration set up 14 relief camps and 17 relief distribution centres and a total of 2091 people have taken shelter in relief camps in Baksa, Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Nalbari and Tamulpur districts. Over 1.07 lakh domestic animals, and poultry have also been affected in the first spell of flood in the flood-hit districts. On Wednesday, the NDRF, SDRF, and Fire & Emergency Services who are engaged in rescue operations evacuated 1280 people from flood-hit areas. On Wednesday, the flood waters damaged 4 embankments, 72 roads, and 7 bridges.
There will no respite from the rain as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an ‘Orange Alert’, predicting very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall across several districts over the next few days. IMD’s Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Guwahati said “Moisture incursion is very likely to continue due to strong low-level Southerly/Southwesterly winds from the Bay of Bengal to Northeast India during the next two days,” as reported by PTI. “Under its influence, widespread rainfall activity with heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rainfall/ thunderstorm with lightning is very likely to continue over the northeast region during the next two days and likely to decrease gradually thereafter,” it said.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that the Royal Government of Bhutan has issued a weather advisory stating that cloudy weather with light to moderate rainfall may occur in isolated areas of the country in the next 2-3 days, potentially leading to rising water levels in the Brahmaputra and its tributaries.Ka