GUWAHATI: The Golaghat district administration is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the flood-affected people taking shelter in the relief camps over the past week can return to their homes at the earliest.
“We are trying our level best to ensure livable and hygienic conditions for the flood affected people. The public health engineering department has been instructed to provide safe drinking water, medicine, bleaching powder and phenyl. We have also deployed medical teams across the revenue circles,” Golaghat deputy commissioner, Gaurav Bothra told The Shillong Times on Tuesday.
As on Tuesday evening, a population of 81,269 across 110 villages remains affected in the Upper Assam district with 20, 651 sheltered in 69 relief camps even as the flood situation has shown signs of letting up.
“Some have returned to their homes while, if there is no further rain and the weather holds up, it will take at least a week before the majority who are taking shelter in the relief camps can return home,” Bothra said.
The deluge has taken a toll on human habitation leaving houses and huts in a shambles with television footage showing many rendered muddy and unhygienic even as some tried, mostly in vain, to retrieve some items.
NEEPCO opens gate
Meanwhile, the authorities of North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited’s Doyang hydel project in Nagaland reopened a radial gate on Monday evening to release excess rain water in the wake of the reservoir water level rising above the danger level of 324 metres.
“However, this time, NEEPCO intimated us about the release of water. It helps if they inform us in advance about the quantum of water released. As it is, the Dhansiri is flowing above danger mar while the Brahmaputra is near the danger level,” the deputy commissioner said.
NEEPCO had on Sunday morning closed the four radial gates which were opened on July 27 to release excess rainwater from the reservoir.