From Our Correspondent
Guwahati : The flood situation in parts of Assam and four districts of the neighboring Arunachal Pradesh continued to remain grim.
Official sources informed that almost all the districts of eastern Assam are reeling under flood while the situation in four districts of Arunachal Pradesh remained unchanged with major rivers and their tributaries flowing above the danger mark.
Six columns of the Army and four units of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were deployed in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia and Dhemaji districts on Friday, rescue thousands of marooned people.
The fourth wave of flood in Assam has been triggered by incessant rain in upstream areas and eastern Assam for more than a week.
Over 4 lakh people in 13 of Assam districts have been affected in the current wave of floods.
The affected districts included Baksa, Barpeta, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup, Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Udalguri and Sonitpur. More than 817 villages have been deluged in these districts.
The government has so far set up about 50 relief camps where over 50,000 people have taken shelter.
The situation at Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, too, has turned grim, with animals fleeing to higher ground to escape the flood waters. Kaziranga National Park in central Assam too have been partially submerged making the animals cross the high way to higher ground to the South of the Park.
Army and NDRF rescue boats have to negotiate very strong current of flood waters in Sadiya in eastern most Assam . It has been not possible to reach out to a section of marooned people in Sadiya so far.
Meanwhile,flood situation in four districts of Arunachal Pradesh remained grim with major rivers and their tributaries flowing above the danger mark.
Flood water has submerged vast areas in Lohit, Dibang Valley, Changlang and East Siang districts. One person was killed in the flood in the hill state.
The administration in worst-affected Lohit district has sent SOS to the state headquarter to make arrangement for evacuation of marooned persons of Tezu and Namsai sub-division. Altogether 411.10 mm rainfall was recorded in the district since Friday, a senior official informed.