{"id":79793,"date":"2022-07-03T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.in\/?p=79793"},"modified":"2022-07-03T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T16:06:27","slug":"flood-condition-improves-in-assam-five-more-die-18-35-lakh-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/?p=79793","title":{"rendered":"Flood condition improves in Assam: five more die, 18.35 lakh hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The flood condition in Assam improved on Sunday although five more persons lost their lives and over 18.35 lakh people are still reeling under the deluge across 23 districts, an official bulletin said.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons lost their lives in Nagaon and one each drowned at different places of Karimganj, Lakhimpur and Sivasagar districts during the day.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0With this, the total number of persons losing their lives in this year’s flood and landslides has gone up to 179 across the state.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>\"FloodASDMA said more than 18,35,500 people are hit due to floods in Bajali, Barpeta, Biswanath, Cachar, Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Hojai, Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Karimganj, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Sonitpur, Tamulpur, Tinsukia and Udalguri districts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Cachar is the worst hit with nearly 10.2 lakh people suffering, followed by Nagaon with almost 3.76 lakh persons and Morigaon with around 1.76 lakh people.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Urban flood has hit several places in Dibrugarh districts, the bulletin said.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Till Saturday, nearly 22.18 lakh people were affected in the deluge across 24 districts in the state.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0At present, 1,618 villages are under water and 47,198.87 hectares of crop areas have been damaged across Assam, ASDMA said.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0It further said authorities are running 413 relief camps and distribution centres in 20 districts, where 2,78,060 people, including 65,757 children, are taking shelter.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The authorities have distributed 685.26 quintals of rice, dal and salt, 2,634.44 litres of mustard oil, 4,793.92 quintals of cattle feed and other flood relief items.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Massive erosions have been witnessed in Biswanath, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dibrugarh, Morigaon, Sivasagar, Sonitpur, Tinsukia and Udalguri districts.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Embankments, roads, bridges and other infrastructure have been damaged by flood waters in Bongaigaon, Karimganj, Nagaon, Biswanath, Kamrup, Morigaon, Nalbari, Udalguri, Bajali, Cachar, Hailakandi, Hojai, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur and Majuli.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A total of 5,90,949 domestic animals and poultry have been affected in the deluge across 12 districts, ASDMA said.<\/span>
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Quoting the Central Water Commission bulletin, the ASDMA said that the mighty Brahmaputra at Dhubri town, Tezpur and Neamatighat, while it tributaries Kopili at Dharamtul, Disang at Nanglamuraghat and Burhidihing at Chenimari (Khowang) are flowing above danger levels.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The flood condition in Assam improved on Sunday although five more persons lost their lives and over 18.35 lakh people are still reeling under the deluge across 23 districts, an official bulletin said. \u00a0 \u00a0According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons lost their lives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"bottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"2","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"200"},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[2902],"class_list":["post-79793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assam","tag-flood-condition-improves-in-assam"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assamtimespost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}