DHEMAJI, Aug 30 � With the weather clearing up, the overall flood situation in Dhemaji district has been gradually improving since Thursday night. The water level has come down in all the flood-affected areas.
The floodwaters of the Jiadhal river, which entered the Tekjuri area through the breached portion of the Jiadhal dyke at Borman Gaon on August 22, inundated about 50 villages in the Tekjuri, Jiadhal and West Dhemaji areas under the Dhemaji Revenue Circle. The floodwaters of the Brahmaputra river, which entered the Sissi and Jorkata areas at Machkhowa under the same revenue circle after breaching a big portion of the Brahmaputra embankment at Rekhachapari in Deorighat, submerged about 13 villages.
Dhemaji Revenue Circle Officer Utpal Bora told this correspondent that about 50 revenue villages under the Dhemaji Circle have been submerged. Around 35,000 people belonging to 5,833 families have been affected. Around 25,100 acres of land, including 20,000 hectares of cropland, have been damaged by the flood.
As many as 700 flood-hit people in Dhemaji are still taking shelter in four relief camps. The Dhemaji district administration is supplying adequate quantities of rice, dal, salt, drinking water and medicines to the inmates of the relief camps as well as the families in the flood-hit villages.
The Circle Officer of Dhemaji Revenue Circle on Friday visited the flood-affected villages in west Dhemaji. He said that the Dhemaji civil administration distributed food materials in 43 villages.
Meanwhile, the Hiloipara-Burabhakat Road in west Dhemaji, which is the only link to Habung, has been breached by the Brahmaputra floodwaters. The surging waters of the Brahmaputra, which entered through the breached portion of the Rekha Chapori embankment and flowed through the Karha tributary, washed away about 100 metres of the Hiloipara-Burabhakat Road near the Binapani High School on Tuesday night, deluging about 20 villages in the area including Kawaimari, Kalakata, Hatigarh, etc.
The flood also washed away three bamboo bridges in the area after a big culvert on the Burabhakat-Kawaimari Road was breached. Consequently, 22 villages under the Ajuha Gaon Panchayat have been cut off. All the paddy fields in the area have also been submerged.