Nearly 1L people affected in floods across 6 Assam districts

Almost one lakh people have been affected across six districts in the first wave of floods in Assam.
According to an official release by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), nearly one lakh people were suffering in Jorhat, Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Cachar and Charaideo districts.
Authorities have opened 40 relief camps in Sivasagar, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh and Charaideo where 7,412 inmates were taking shelter.
So far nearly 5,000 hectares of crop area have been inundated by flood water, the release said.
Currently, Burhidihing and Desang Naglamuraga rivers were flowing above the danger mark in Sivasagar, it said.
Army, NDRF and SDRF teams have been deployed for search and rescue operations in flood affected areas of Charaideo district.

Relief materials have been distributed to flood affected people in Sivasagar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Charaideo.

Meanwhile, train services over Lumding-Silchar hill section, which resumed yesterday evening with the movement of goods train, had to be controlled again today due to further landslides at four places between Lumding and Badarpur.
Accordingly train services in the section have been regulated till completion of restoration work, NF Railway officials said.
The rising water level of the Brahmaputra yesterday
brought 85 per cent of KNP area under floods, submerging 117 of the 120 forest camps there and snapping road connectivity.
Country boats are the only means of communication for the KNP guards and others, the officials said.

Patrolling by security forces on elephant back in the World Heritage Site has been intensified pressing 14 elephants into service for the purpose of checking poaching, they added.
Meanwhile, the KNP authority has fixed barricades and begun issuing time cards for vehicles plying through the Park to control movement and speed of vehicles.
The Park authority said it is ready to tackle the flood situation in KNP's four ranges keeping over a hundred country boats, including machine boats, and food material to do water patrolling in all ranges to prevent poaching.
A report from Morigaon said the entire Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, the dense habitat of one horned rhinos, was flooded forcing all wild animals including rhinos, wild buffaloes, wild pigs and several species of snakes and birds to go to nearby highlands causing concern among the nature loving organisations.

According to officials of Pobitora, the Sanctuary was completely under water and the shortage of green grass and other fodders there has created crisis for the rhinos and other animals.
Rhinos are taking shelter in highlands of Pobitora WLS as the Brahmaputra's flood has completely inundated the sanctuary today, the officials said adding, no poaching has been reported so far and the forest are maintaining round the clock vigil to combat poaching inside the Sanctuary.
Meanwhile, Assam Governor P B Acharya has expressed concern for the people reeling under floods and surveyed the deluge affected areas by helicopter.