The flood situation has deteriorated in Assam affecting over 12 lakh people on Monday in 20 districts of the State even as the death toll reached 33 on Monday after seven more people, including three minors, died due to the floods in different parts of the State.
According to the statistics of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) two minor boys have died due to drowning in two separate incidents at Upper Assam’s Jorhat districts while another 12 year old got drowned at Matia area of Western Assam’s Golapara district in last 24 hours.
Three more persons died due to floods in lakhimpur district which includes two deaths due to drowning and one due to landslide, the ASDMA officials said adding that another person died due to drowning in Golaghat district of Assam, the officials said on Monday.
The ASDMA officials further said that 12,55,692 people have been affected by the flood in over 2,058 villages in 20 districts of the state as on today. The flood waters have also submerged over one lakh hectares of agricultural land damaging standing crops, the officials said.
The flood hit districts includes lakhimpur, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat, Cachar, Dhemaji, Biswanath, Karimganj, Sonitpur, Majuli, Barpeta, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivsagar, Morigaon, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Dhubri, Kokrajhar and South Salmara.
“There are also over 18,000 people who have taken shelter in 148 relief camps in ten of the 20 flood affected districts as on today,” the officials said adding that they have also opened 71 relief centres to distribute relief materials among the people.
The officials said that there has also been reports of infrastructure damage including roads, houses and bridges due to the floods from different flood-hit districts.
Meanwhile, the flood situation might deteriorate in the days to come as the Brahmaputra, Siang, Subansiri, Dhansiri, Jia Bhorali, Puthimari, Beki, Barak and Kushiara are also flowing above danger level at different parts of the State.