Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju visited the flood ravaged Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday and assured all the required help to the concerned State Governments to deal with the situation even as the flood related death toll reached 49 in Assam on Thursday.
Rijiju arrived in the lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International (lGBI) airport at Guwahati on Thursday and headed straight to lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts in Assam. Rijiju was accompanied by a team of Ministry of Home Affairs, NITI Ayog and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) officials who is expected to make a preliminary assessment of the flood damage in the two States. later Rijiju also visited parts of flood and landslide hit Arunachal Pradesh.
In Assam, a total of 17,43,117 persons continue to reel under the flood in 2,450 villages under 26 districts of the State on Thursday even as the flood have rendered thousands of people homeless.
While over 28,000 people have taken shelter in relief camps opened by the different flood hit districts, thousands of others have been taking shelter in makeshift camps on the national highways and other high lands.
Although the Assam government has claimed to have provided sufficient relief materials among the different flood hit people, thousands of flood affected people have, however, complained of poor relief arrangements by the district administrations and said that they had not received anything as yet from the administration.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh on Thursday spoke to Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal and expressed concern over the damage caused by the devastating floods in Assam.
The DoNER Minister also conveyed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s deep anguish for the loss of lives and properties in the current wave of floods in the State.
Singh also informed that Prime Minister Modi has entrusted him of all responsibilities to extend all possible help from the Centre and help the state tide over the impact of this catastrophic flood.
“The Centre is very much with the people of Assam at this time crisis and assures all possible help to normalise the situation,” he said while expressing concern over the situation.
Chief Minister Sonowal also directed the Resident Commissioner, Assam Bhawan, New Delhi to liaison with the DoNER Ministry and furnish an exhaustive account of the loss in terms of lives and properties incurred during the current flood.