Incessant downpour and release of water from reservoirs coupled with poor drainage due to silted rivers and wide encroachments on river basins resulted in devastating flood in West Bengal and some other states. Gushing flood waters wreaked havoc to the life and livelihood of people submerging houses, overflowing roads, inundating farmlands and ponds. The flood waters had brought in a spate of diseases in their wake. In West Bengal death toll has risen to around hundred. Marooned, shelter-less and without food, hundreds of thousands of people needed immediate rescue and relief. Government efforts fell far short of the need. NGOs, CSOs and CBOs joined in. Dakshinbanga Matsyajibi Forum (DMF) with fraternal organisations like Rupnarayan Nad Matsyajibi Union, DISHA and Howrah Zila Bigyan Chetana plunged into relief work in the district of Howrah with whatever provisions of food, water and medicine they could collect. In the district of Howrah Amta-1 and Amta-2 blocks have been the most affected with Gram Panchayet areas of Ghoraberia, Chitnan , Dakshin Bhatora and Uttar Bhatora surrounded by the rivers Rupnarayan, Mundeshwari and Damodar being the worst hit. Dakshinbanga Matsyajibi Forum (DMF) with fraternal organisations like Rupnarayan Nad Matsyajibi Union, DISHA and Howrah Zila Bigyan Chetana organised relief camps in the areas on 6th and 13th August 2017. Apart from the activists of fish workers’ organisation and staff members of DISHA many medical and other students participated in the relief work. Hundreds of affected people, mostly of villages inhabited by fishing communities, were provided with dry food, drinking water and medicines. Local fish worker organisations guided the relief work. The affected people are in urgent need of tarpaulin sheets for making temporary shelters and medical camps with primary medicines. DMF, alongwith its fraternal organisations appeal to all concerned to extend their support.