The flood situation in Assam continues to deteriorate with rising water level of Brahmaputra threatening to inundate low-lying areas of Guwahati, including Gopi Nath Bordoloi International Airport.
The rising trend of Brahmaputra and its tributaries has inundated the largest river island of Asia — Majuli — where 41 prisoners of the jail were shifted to its district headquarters Jorhat on Monday.
The state authorities in a flood bulletin said that at least nine satras (the Vaishnavite monasteries), 40 educational institutions and sub-divisional headquarters of Majuli were under the water.
The second wave of flood which has devastated half of the state has inundated 63 revenue circles of Baksa, Barpeta, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup Rural, Kamrup Metro, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivsagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia districts.
Over two lakhs people have been displaced and taking shelter in 166 relief camps set up by the state administration in flood-hit area of the state. The flood water was threatening to enter the Fancy Bazar area of Guwahati and inundated the surroundings of Guwahati airport on Tuesday.
Though, district authorities claimed that they have been keeping a close watch on embankments protecting the airport and Guwahati University campus from water of Brahmaputra.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who is in Japan, spoke to revenue minister Prithibi Majhi, water resources minister Rajib Lochan Pegu and chief secretary Naba Kumar Das over the phone and directed them to intensify rescue and relief operations.
The state authorities claimed that Mr Gogoi was in touch with ministers and senior bureaucrats of the state over telephone.
The residents of worst flood-hit Dhemaji district complained about non-supply of adequate relief materials to the district where 622 villages have been badly hit by flood. The Indian Army was also helping the civil administration in Sonitpur district, also the headquarters of Gajraj Corps. The wild life sanctuaries — Kaziranga and Pobitra was also affected by flood, which is said to have damaged the crops of farmers in flood-hit areas.
The Brahmaputra was flowing above the danger level at Dibrugarh, Nematighat, Tezpur, Dhubri, Guwahati and Goalpara.