India

GUWAHATI: The number of districts and subdivisons affected in the first wave of floods rose to 18 on Monday evening from 14 the previous day.

However, the number of flood-hit people in the state has come down by about 3,000 in the last 24 hours, said the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) bulletin.

As on Monday evening, 15 districts - Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sonitpur, Cachar, Jorhat, Kamrup (Metro) and Udalguri are directly impacted by floods.

The three subdivisons that have been hit are Biswanath, Hojai and Tamulpur.

Cachar, Darrang, Jorhat, Kamrup (Metro), Kokrajhar and Nalbari are facing urban floods.

The Kopili, a tributary of the Brahmaputra, was flowing above danger mark at Kampur in central Assam on Monday.

The ASDMA said as on Monday evening, 30,729 people are affected by floods in the state of whom 13,599 are women and 2,866 children.

Altogether, 25 relief camps are operational in the state and 17 of these are in the worst-hit Lakhimpur district of upper Assam.

Further, the government has operationalized another 25 relief distribution centres across the affected districts.Over 84,700 livestock has been affected by the current wave of floods, whereas 4741.23 hectares of crop area is facing inundation.

With the monsoon remaining active over the northeastern region, the IMD 'orange warning' for the northeast is still active.

An 'orange warning' is a call to disaster management agencies to stay prepared to tackle eventualities due to adverse climatic conditions.

"Widespread rainfall activity with heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rainfall/thunderstorms with lightning is very likely to continue over Assam during the next 2-3 days and likely to decrease gradually thereafter," the IMD said in its Monday bulletin.

Cherrapunji continued to experience the highest rainfall (28cm) in the region in the last 24 hours.

Several other places in west Assam, Bongaigaon (23 cm), Gossaigaon (22 cm) and Kokrajhar (22 cm) experienced extremely heavy rainfall during the period.

The Met office here warned that thunderstorms and lightning are very likely to occur at isolated places over all seven NE states on Tuesday.

Also, heavy to very heavy with extremely heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places over Assam and Meghalaya.

The IMD warned that heavy to very heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places over Mizoram and Tripura, while heavy rain is very likely to occur at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur in the next 24 hours.





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