According to the day by day flood report, one particular person was killed at Athani in Dhubri district. (File)
Guwahati:
The flood scenario in Assam improved marginally with water receding from two affected districts, however remained important in 20 different districts the place over 13 lakh individuals have been submerged, officers stated on Friday.
The deluge claimed an individual’s life in Dhubri district, elevating the demise depend to 35, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) stated.
With this, the cumulative demise depend attributable to flooding and landslides have risen to 59 throughout the state.
The ASDMA stated almost 13.three lakh individuals are affected by flooding in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Chirang, Darrang, Nalbari, Barpeta, Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, South Salmara, Goalpara, Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Morigaon, Nagaon, Golaghat, Jorhat, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts.
Barpeta is the worst hit by the flood the place over 7.41 lakh individuals have been affected, adopted by South Salmara with nearly 1.95 lakh individuals and Goalpara with 93,300 individuals, the ASDMA stated.
The SDRF, district administrations and native individuals have evacuated 1,189 individuals over the past 24 hours in 5 districts, the ASDMA stated in a bulletin.
According to the day by day flood report, one particular person was killed at Athani in Dhubri district.
Till Thursday, greater than 16 lakh individuals have been struggling because of the deluge unfold throughout 22 districts.
At current, 1,636 villages are underwater and 67,628.06 hectares of crop areas have been broken, the ASDMA stated.
It additional stated authorities are working 156 reduction camps and distribution centres throughout 13 districts, the place 11,741 individuals have taken shelter.
The authorities have distributed a complete of 6,997.57 quintals of rice, dal and salt, and three,304.62 litres of mustard oil together with different reduction supplies equivalent to tarpaulin, snacks, candle, matchbox, ingesting water, milk and biscuit.
The Brahmaputra river is flowing above the hazard degree at Nimatighat in Jorhat and Dhubri city in Dhubri districts.
Its tributaries Jia Bharali at NT Road Crossing in Sonitpur, Kopili at Dharamtul in Nagaon and Beki at Road Bridge in Barpeta are flowing above the hazard degree.
Embankments, roads, bridges, culverts and lots of different infrastructures have been broken at varied locations in Udalguri, Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang and Dibrugarh districts, the ASDMA report stated.
A complete of 43 camps out of 223 at Kaziranga National Park, and two out of 40 camps at Rajiv Gandhi Orang National Park have been affected by the deluge.
Floodwaters have additionally claimed the lives of 41 animals in Kaziranga National Park, the bulletin stated, quoting the DFO of the Eastern Assam Wildlife Division.
The flood has additionally affected 19,14,001 home animals and poultry throughout the state over the past 24 hours, it added.