Lakhipur: Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi arrived in Assam on Monday to fulfill the flood-affected victims at a aid camp in Fulertal, Lakhipur.
The Congress chief arrived at Kumbhigram airport in Silchar district, within the morning and visited a flood aid camp in Lakhipur to work together with the displaced residents.
Rahul Gandhi obtained a heartfelt reception at Silchar Airport from leaders of Assam and Manipur.
After his go to to the aid camp at Fulertal in Assam, Rahul Gandhi proceeded to Manipur to go to aid camps at three completely different areas. The chief of the Opposition will even name upon the Manipur Governor this night.
As per the present flood state of affairs in Assam, 58 individuals have died and 53,429 are in search of refuge in shelter camps throughout the state. As many as 23.9 lakh individuals have been affected throughout 3,535 villages thus far. 68,769 hectares of complete crop space have been submerged.
114 animals, together with 6 rhinos, have died in Kaziranga Nationwide Park, as per the report.
In the meantime, the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) submitted a letter on the present flood state of affairs within the state to Rahul Gandhi at Silchar airport on Monday.
As per the official APCC letter, “The important thing to Assam’s flood issues lay within the hills. As a consequence of large-scale deforestation within the hills, there’s immense siltation in Assam’s rivers. The resultant rising of the riverbed has progressively decreased the carrying capability of Assam’s rivers.”
“Subsequently, within the monsoon season and with local weather change, we’re seeing excessive rainfalls–the water discharge is past the carrying capability of rivers. The long-term resolution subsequently is a pan-Northeast water administration authority, suitably empowered by Parliament to do all the things obligatory to manage floods,” it mentioned.
“The short-term resolution is strengthening the present flood administration infrastructure like embankments, and offering rapid aid and rehabilitation to these affected,” acknowledged the letter.
In the meantime, APCC leaders, MPs, MLAs, Frontal Heads, DCCs and BCCs are touring the flood-affected areas.
The letter additional requested Rahul Gandhi on behalf of the individuals of Assam to take up the matter of the flood state of affairs and a particular case and assist the state obtain sufficient aid and compensation for the extreme losses incurred because of the floods from the GOI.
“We’d be grateful to you for carrying our voice of agony to the Centre. Assam ought to get a bundle to deal with the grim state of affairs, because the state authorities has didn’t get sufficient funds from the Central authorities, a double failure of the double-engine authorities,” it mentioned.
