The death toll of the current wave of floods in Assam has reached seven on Saturday even as the flood situation remained unchanged across the State.
However, the Assam Government has claimed to have improvement in the situation with no rainfall since Friday and hoped that the situation would improve in next few days.
According to the estimate of the State Government, a total of, over six lakh people are still trapped in flood in over 800 villages in 15 districts of the State.
While three people died due in Chirang and Kokrajhar districts, the local people in Assam’s Dhubri district on Saturday recovered four bodies from near the Gourang river in the district taking the final death toll to seven so far. The bodies recovered on Saturday included one minor, the district administration said.
It may be mentioned here that Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has reviewed the flood situation with Minister for Water Resources Basanta Das and senior officials at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat here and directed the Revenue and Disaster Management Department to take all possible steps to gear up relief and rescue operations.
Gogoi also asked the department to provide necessary food, medicine, drinking water, baby food to relief camp inmates. The Chief Minister instructed the department to take special care of children and women.
The administration in flood-hit districts have already opened 120 relief camps where 85,400 flood-affected people have taken shelter at present. The highest numbers of relief camps, 84, have been opened in the worst-hit Kokrajhar district.
Breaches of the embankment was reported from four places across the State leading to disruption of road communication, officials said, adding surface communication between Silchar and Haflong has also been affected due to landslide and overtopping of National Highways 36 and 37.
Although, some of the rivers in Assam are showing falling trend, some are still in spate and the State Government on Saturday put restriction on plying of motor boats and passenger ferries on Brahmaputra and other rivers flowing above danger level in different locations and asked the concerned district administration to monitor the situation.