The water level of Barak
river was showing a rising trend and inundated vast areas in
Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.
Assam flood
situation grim in Barak Valley
Press Trust of India
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 (Guwahati)
The flood situation in Assam turned grim on Tuesday with the
Brahmaputra and its tributaries witnessing rising water
level in catchment areas in several districts following
incessant rainfall.
Official sources have said the situation in worst-hit
Dhemaji district remained critical with road and rail
traffic remaining cut off for nearly a week and several
villages still under water, though flood water was receding.
The district administration has provided shelter to
flood-affected people in four relief camps and 120 temporary
shelters while food and medical relief was being
continuously provided.
The army has been asked to repair the damaged bridges and
the North Eastern Frontier Railway was working round the
clock to clear the tracks of flood water.
Over 40,000 people in 120 villages were marooned after a
breach in the embankment of river Kumotia, a major tributary
of the Brahmaputra, in the flood-prone district.
Vast tracts of land were inundated in Lakhimpur district
after heavy rainfall and road communication was snapped in
several places.
The water level of Barak river was also showing a rising
trend and inundated vast areas in Cachar, Karimganj and
Hailakandi districts.
Nine districts have been affected in the current wave of
flood. They are: Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Cachar, Karimganj,
Hailakandi, Darrang, Morigaon, Sonitpur and Barpeta.
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Silchar-Lumding
Rail route to re-open soon
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TELEGRAPH INDIA
Silchar, July 17: Movement of trains along the Silchar-Lumding
route of the Northeast Frontier Railway is likely to resume
in the last week of September after a three-month closure.
However, the Silchar-Haflong hill section track, which got
off to a start last week, will not be extended to Maibong in
North Cachar Hills district for passenger trains because of
technical reasons, the divisional manager of NF Railway at
Lumding, S.S. Narayanan, said.
The NF Railway authorities have set September 25 as the
deadline for trains, both passenger and goods, to chug along
the Silchar-Lumding hill section metre gauge track again.
This vital link between south Assam districts and adjoining
Mizoram and Tripura has been closed since June 25, when a
railway bridge collapsed near Mupa station, killing six
persons.
The bridge had collapsed into a 100-metre-deep gorge, along
with two diesel engines and seven railway wagons laden with
rice being ferried by the Food Corporation of India.
A senior official of the NF Railway today said over phone
from Lumding that railway personnel had already removed the
wagons. He added that 300 workers and technical personnel,
drawn from all the five divisions of NF Railway in the
region, had been deployed to restore the two broken pillars
of the 100-year-old bridge.
Railway workers had started repairing the bridge on July 2.
Sources had then estimated that it would take at least a
couple of months to restore the bridge as reconstruction
could begin only after the two engines and the wagons were
hauled up from the gorge.
Till the movement of trains resumes, more trucks have been
deployed to ferry foodstuff daily along National Highway 44,
Cachar district deputy commissioner Goutam Ganguli said
while allaying fears on scarcity of food in the region.
KARIMGANJ: Police and
Assam Rifles found sophisticated weapons stashed away
in a forest on Saturday night at Chauraibari village in
Karimganj district. The police suspect that the arms were
hidden by suspected militants belonging to the National
Liberation Front of Tripura.
The haul included two improvised explosive devices each
weighing 13 kg, one two-inch mortar and a wireless set.
Tripura police got wind of arsenal concealed
underground after grilling a few NLFT members who were
recently arrested in
Tripura. Karimganj district additional superintendent
of police Mahesh Chandra Sarma said a search would continue
for some more time as the police and security agencies
suspect that more arms have been concealed in the forest by
the NLFT.
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