Heavy rainfall causes floods in Tripura, boats save drowning people

Heavy rainfall caused floods in various parts of Tripura. Rains caused landslides in Sikkim. Flood situation in Assam and UP is reported to be normal.

Agartala, Sep 5: Every day one or the other state of the country is coming under the grip of floods. On Monday, various parts of the northeastern state of Tripura were submerged in water following heavy rains.

Moreover, due to torrential rains, landslides were reported from various places of Sikkim. Fortunately, situation in flood-ravaged Assam and Uttar Pradesh inched closer to normal.

According to the officials, at least 20,000 flood-affected people in Agartala, the capital city of Tripura, left their homes and took shelter in 25 relief camps.

In fact, the district administration used boat services to rescue people from drowning. West Tripura District Magistrate Milind Ramteke said 12 boats were engaged in relief and rescue work and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were on alert.

"Water of the Howrah river is flowing above the danger level mark in Agartala," he said. The weatherman said 109.25 mm of rainfall was recorded on Monday morning in Agartala.

Also, a heavy downpour pounded parts of West Sikkim, triggering landslides in the area. The landslips damaged roads, houses and other infrastructure at several places in Yuksam.

Meanwhile, the situation in deluge-battered Assam was slowly crawling back to normal though 44,618 people in the districts of Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Chirang, Morigaon, Nagaon, Jorhat and Cachar continue to bear the brunt of the flooding.

Nagaon is the worst affected district with 16,484 people marooned. 15,007 were battling floods in Dhemaji and 12,513 in Morigaon.

Altogether 6,580 people are putting up in 19 relief camps in the affected districts. Around 5,700 hectares of crop area has been affected. Floods claimed 158 lives in the three waves that hit the state this year.

The situation in flood-ravaged districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh also inched closer to normal, officials said.

The number of flood-related fatalities in the state has plateaued at 108. No deluge-related death was reported over the last three days, the flood control room at the office of relief commissioner told PTI.

The flooding in 24 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh affected 27.92 lakh people this year. A number of deluge-affected people continue to put up in relief camps.

The state government is running 279 flood outposts and 72 centres for distribution of relief material, the officials said.

Affected people expressed their anger over the way the government handled the flood situation, this year.

"We are experiencing one of the worst floods, this year. However, the Yogi Adityanath government did not do enough to provide us relief measures. We have lost our crops, homes and everything," said a farmer from a nearby village in Ballia.

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