12 more deaths take flood toll to 100, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma tours Nagaon by boat

GUWAHATI: The death toll in floods and landslides touched 100 on Wednesday, with 12 more casualties reported in the last 24 hours.
Four deaths were reported from Hojai district, followed by three each in Barpeta and Nalbari. Two were swept away in Kamrup.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), in its evening bulletin, said 54.57 lakh people in 32 districts remain affected in floods as on Wednesday evening.
The ASDMA said 4,941 villages in the state remain flood-affected, whereas 99,026 hectares of cropland remain submerged. The highest — 11.29 lakh people — are affected in Barpeta as heavy rain in lower Assam and rainwater rolling down from the Bhutan hills have submerged vast parts of the district and its neighbouring areas.
Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took a train journey from Guwahati to central Assam’s Nagaon district where floods are still wreaking havoc even after the rain has stopped.
Sarma took an hour-long boat ride in various areas of Nagaon district to assess the flood situation and interacted with people from 15 flood-affected villages who were taking shelter at the relief camp in Kampur College.
River Kopili, which has aggravated the flood situation in central Assam, was still flowing over the danger mark at Kampur. The CM reviewed arrangements for inmates belonging to 90 flood-affected families in the relief camp at Raha HS School and later interacted with flood-affected families taking shelter at makeshift relief camps on the national highway at Nellie in Morigaon district. He will visit flood-ravaged Barak Valley on Thursday.
State transport minister Parimal Suklabaidya on Tuesday reviewed the flood situation with the Cachar and Karimganj district administrations. Four teams of NDRF have arrived in the Barak Valley from Bhubaneswar, taking the total number of NDRF teams to be deployed to 10.
Suklabaidya directed the authorities to keep a sufficient number of country boats ready to shift marooned people to safer places. He directed Cachar DC Keerthi Jalli to chalk out a roadmap for strategic deployment of NDRF personnel. Later Suklabaidya, who is also the guardian minister of Karimganj district, visited flood-affected areas under Badarpur and Katigorah revenue circles.