Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI: Incessant heavy and very heavy rainfall has adversely affected normal life across the state since Friday. And the IMD (India Meteorological Department) has predicted that the situation will remain grim for the next two to three days.
One of the immediate effects of the monsoon rains in the state is such that several rivers, including the Brahmaputra, Dehing, Ranganadi, Dikhou, Kopili, Deki, the Siang, etc., have been maintaining a rising trend, prompting flood alerts in vulnerable areas. The situation turned more grim in Lakhimpur after excess water was released from the Ranganadi hydel project.
Hundreds of villages in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Golaghat have been affected by the first wave of deluge of the year. In North Lakhimpur, floodwaters breached a ring bund. In the Bokakhat area, National Highway 37 has been inundated at several stretches. Several bridges and roads are under threat in lower Assam due to floods and erosion.
An IMD forecast says that in the next three days light to moderate rain is likely to occur at Bajali, Baksa, Kamrup (M), Kokrajhar, Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao, Sribhumi, South Salmara, etc.
According to official sources, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have deployed their personnel in vulnerable areas. In Guwahati, they are conducting evacuations of families from the vulnerable areas. The district authorities have been distributing relief material in the affected areas.
According to sources, the situation in Assam has taken a turn for the worse due to heavy rainfall in Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.
Dispur has alerted all district authorities to monitor the situation round the clock so as to extend immediate help when and where necessary, besides the setting up of relief camps and providing relief materials to the affected people.
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