At current, 2,800 villages are beneath water (File)
Guwahati:
The flood state of affairs in Assam continued to deteriorate with eight extra individuals dropping their lives and greater than 16.25 lakh individuals reeling beneath the deluge throughout 27 districts on Wednesday, an official bulletin mentioned.
Until Tuesday, greater than 11.3 lakh individuals have been struggling in flood waters throughout 23 districts of the state.
In response to the each day flood report of the Assam State Catastrophe Administration Authority (ASDMA), two individuals died at Tezpur income circle of Sonitpur district, whereas one every drowned at Mayong of Morigaon, Naharkatia of Dibrugarh, Pub Mangaladi of Darrang, Dergaon of Golaghat, Halem of Biswanath and Margherita of Tinsukia.
With this, the full variety of individuals dropping their lives on this 12 months’s flood, landslide and storm has elevated to 56.
Apart from, three extra individuals are lacking and feared to be washed away by flood waters in Sonitpur, Sivasagar and Golaghat districts.
The report mentioned greater than 16,25,000 individuals are hit because of the floods in Barpeta, Biswanath, Cachar, Charaideo, Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Golaghat, Hailakandi, Hojai, Jorhat, Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, East Karbi Anglong, West Karbi Anglong, Karimganj, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts.
Dhubri is the worst hit with over 2.23 lakh individuals struggling, adopted by Darrang with almost 1.84 lakh individuals and Lakhimpur with greater than 1.66 lakh individuals reeling beneath flood waters, it added.
The administration has been working 515 reduction camps and reduction distribution centres in 24 districts, the place 3,86,950 individuals have taken shelter at current.
Practically 8,400 individuals have been rescued by civil administration, SDRF, NDRF and Emergency Companies personnel from varied components of the state, ASDMA mentioned.
The authority has distributed 6,372.42 quintals of rice, 1,230.96 quintals of dal, 365.61 quintals of salt and 27,303.13 litres of mustard oil among the many flood victims of the state over the last 24 hours.
At current, 2,800 villages are beneath water and 42,476.18 hectares of crop areas have been broken throughout Assam, the ASDMA mentioned.
Embankments, roads, bridges and different infrastructure have been broken by flood waters in varied districts.
At current, the mighty Brahmaputra is flowing above the hazard marks at Nimatighat, Tezpur, Guwahati, Goalpara and Dhubri.
Its tributaries Subansiri at Badatighat, Burhidihing at Chenimari, Dikhou at Sivasagar, Disang at Nanglamuraghat, Dhansiri at Numaligarh, and Kopili at Kampur and Dharamtul are flowing above the hazard ranges.
The Barak river is flowing above the hazard mark at AP Ghat, BP Ghat, Chotabakra and Fuletrak, whereas its tributaries Dhaleswari at Gharmura, Katakhal at Matizuri and Kushiyara at Karimganj city and are additionally flowing above the hazard marks, ASDMA mentioned.
On account of widespread flooding, over 11,20,100 home animals and poultry are affected throughout the state.
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