Morung Express News
Dimapur | July 4
Heavy rains in last 2 to 3 days over Northeast India have flooded the low-lying areas of several places in Assam and affected more than 57000 people, Skymet reported today.
More than 100 villages have been damaged and 1500 hectares of crop land have also been spoilt, the private weather forecaster informed in an update on its website.
It said that a cyclonic circulation is persisting over Assam and Meghalaya and this has enhanced rainfall activities over the region, leading to flood over northern districts of Assam including North Lakhimpur, Dhemaji and Sonitpur districts.
The Assam State Disaster Management Authority, on July 4, also issued flood alert in Jorhat, Nagaon, Golaghat & Barpeta districts.
During last 24 hours, Silchar received 24 mm of rainfall and Cherrapunji in Meghalaya also received 174 mm of rainfall, Skymet added.
Assam, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh will continue to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on July 5 but there will be a slight reduction in rainfall intensity will be observed during the second half of the week in the North East, it added.
Meanwhile, Tripura continues to bear the onslaught of monsoon as a long stretch of the Assam-Agartala (NH 8) at Lowerpoa in Karimganj district of Assam were badly damaged due to rainfall and water logging.
Thousands of trucks carrying essential commodities and fuel are stranded for almost a month and ten trucks carrying fuel could enter the state every day but the state requires more than 20 trucks or oil tankers every day, PTI had earlier reported.
As a result, the Tripura government has imposed rationing of fuel since July 3 and the petrol pumps in the state were instructed not to sell fuel worth more than Rs 200 at a time to vehicles like motorbikes and small cars.
As per the new system, a biker is allowed to buy petrol amounting to Rs 200 per day, Rs 300 for autorickshaw and Rs 500 for four-wheelers, it said.
The government has also made arrangement to get food, fuel via Bangladesh through Inland Water Transit and Trade Protocol, Tripura Revenue and PWD Minister Chowdhury told reporter in Agartala yesterday.
