Assam Floods: Over twenty one hundred thousand folks Affected, Silchar Worst-Hit solely in province wherever tea is made

 Assam Floods:, Bollywood star Aamir Khan on Monday donated ₹ 25 lakh to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund as assistance for the flood-hit people.

Assam Floods: Most parts of Silchar remained submerged for over a week.

Guwahati: Eight a lot persons lost their lives within the devastating get Assam on Mon, whereas over twenty-one hundred thousand individuals continued to stay in distress underneath the impact of the deluge, officers aforesaid.

The death count because of the flood this year mounted to 134 with eight deaths reported throughout the day, that embrace 5 from Cachar district and one every from Kamrup tube, Morigaon, and Nagaon, they said.

One person was additionally reported missing in the Cachar district, in keeping with a bulletin of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).

There was, however, some improvement within the flood scenario, with the full affected population declining to twenty-one.52 hundred thousand in twenty-two districts as against the previous day's twenty-two. 21 hundred thousand in twenty-eight districts.

Most of the rivers showed a receding trend, tho' Kopili at Nagaon, Barak at Cachar and Karimganj and Kushiara in Karimganj were flowing on top of the danger level, the officers aforesaid.

In Silchar city, which has been submerged for over per week, efforts square measure current to produce relief in those areas wherever the administration is however to achieve, by air dropping packets with food, potable bottles and different necessities by Indian Air Force helicopters.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) also are engaged in making ready a flood map of Silchar city thus establishing the extent of injury, and facilitate taking measures to mitigate losses in the future, Cachar Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli aforesaid.

The District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), United Nations agency, and OXFAM have come upon boat-mounted water treatment units to cater to the poverty-stricken among Silchar and its peripheral areas, she added.

Transport Minister Parimal Suklabaidya on Mon visited Borjalenga and Narsinghpur development blocks in his body Dholai to examine the delivery of relief materials for the flood-affected individuals.

The ASDMA bulletin aforesaid a pair of,254 villages underneath sixty-one revenue circles stay full of this wave of floods across the state, while 1,91,194 individuals have taken shelter in 538 relief camps.

Flood waters have broken seventy-nine roads and 5 bridges, whilst six embankments were broken, it said.

A crop space of seventy-four,655.89 hectares remains inundated, and 2,774 animals have thus far been washed away, it added.

Meanwhile, movie industry star Aamir Khan on Mon gave twenty-five hundred thousand to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund as help for the flood-hit individuals.

"Eminent movie industry actor Aamir Khan extended assistance to the flood-affected individuals of our state by creating a generous contribution of ₹ twenty-five hundred thousand towards CM Relief Fund. My sincere feeling for his concern and act of generosity," Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma tweeted.