Assam rivers maintain rising trend

Incessant rainfall in the catchment areas during the last week have led to a rise in the water level of the rivers inundating vast tracts of farmlands and villages in ten districts of Lower and Upper Assam and Hailakandi in Barak Valley.

A four-year old child, identified as Babul Das, drowned in a heavily-flooded pond in Ouiguri area of Baksa district, the sources said.

The water-level of the Brahmaputra was rising at Dibrugarh, Nimatighat in Jorhat, Tezpur and Dhubri, while its tributaries Buridihing, Subansiri, Dikhow, Dhansiri, Jia Bharali and Kopili were also maintaining a steady rise.

The flood affected districts include Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Kamrup (Rural), Baksa, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Nagaon and Dhubri along with Hailakandi in the Barak Valley.

Nearly 50,000 people have been affected by the current wave of floods, while road communication was affected in many part of these districts, they said .

The worst affected areas are Naoboicha and Narayanpur revenue circles in Lakhimpur, Jonai, Dhemaji and Sissibargaon circles in Dhemaji, Gohpur in Sonitpur, Algapur in Hailakandi, Goreswar, Salbari and areas adjoining Bhutan in Baksa districts, the sources added.

The state government has directed the concerned district administrations to provide necessary relief to the affected people.