From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI:Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday sounded alert in the state in view of the grim flood situation after making an aerialsurvey of worst affected districts. He also made a survey of flood scene inside Kaziranga National Park (KNP).
The flood situation has remained grim especially in the three districts of Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur where flood waters have breached numerous embankments, snapped roads and inundated 350 villages affecting over 2.5 lakh people.
Gogoi after making the survey of the situation instructed deputy commissioners of all the affected districts to leave no stone unturned to provide prompt relief and shelter to the flood-hit.
Five teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) having 45 personnel in each of the teams have been deployed in worst affected districts for flood relief and rescue operations.
Flood waters have washed away a railway track in Lakhimpur district disrupting railway traffic with Arunachal Pradesh. Sources in Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) informed that swollen Druprong river last night submerged village Duprong and washed away the Rangiya-Jonai-Mukongchelek metre gauge rail tracks near Tatibahar station affecting movement of trains to the neighbouring state.
The situation is very grim in Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur district with the mighty Brahmaputra River and its tributaries Subansiri, Jiadhal, Ranganadi and Jia Bharali are on spate because of incessant rain in neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh hills.
With the let up in the rains today the water level of numerous smaller tributaries of Brahmaputra River has shown a falling trend .
The severed road link between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh through NH-52 in Dhemaji district has been restored with flood water receding at Samarajan.
However, flood situation in Sonitpur district remained unchanged as the Brahmaputra and its tributaries were flowing above the danger level affecting 30,000 families and damaging 10,000 hectares of crop land.
Overtopping of NH-52 at Chariduar has disrupted movement of traffic between Biswanath Chariali in the district and neighbouring Lakhimpur district.
(EoM)