Assam floods: In the last 24 hours, all of Silchar — southern Assam’s biggest town and the gateway to the three Barak valley districts — has been submerged in water unlike “ever before in its history”.
As the Assam Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government took over part of a 45-year-old tea estate to build a new airport near the city of Silchar, India’s civil aviation minister told Parliament in June 2022 that he had no knowledge of the project. Hundreds of tense, angry tea-garden workers, who...
Nine days after Silchar saw its worst flood, water lies stagnant, power supply is still out at some places, officials are struggling with rescue, and people have questions over if things will ever change.
The Chief Minister said that he was honoured to receive a call from the President who enquired about Assam’s flood scenario and the ongoing relief and rescue operations
Almost every year, three to four waves of flood ravage Assam. The average annual loss due to the disaster is to the tune of Rs 200 crore, according to a state government website.
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