Road, rail links cut off to parts of northeast
Around 2 lakh people in Assam affected by floods, landslides
Guwahati/ Haflong May 17: Surface links to Assam’s Barak Valley and Dima Hasao district and to neighbouring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur remained snapped on Tuesday as incessant rains triggered landslides and washed off roads as well as railway tracks in multiple locations of Assam and Meghalaya.
Landslides in different locations in Assam’s Dima Hasao district disrupted road as well as rail connectivity. In Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district landslides cut off road communication to Barak Valley in southern Assam and vital parts of the three north eastern states.
East Jaintia Hills police has alerted about fresh landslides under its jurisdiction.
There has been fresh landslide in Kuliang village on NH06 this morning. The route from Silchar-Ratachera-Khliehriat is blocked. Efforts are on to clear the same and necessary assistance is being provided to stranded passengers, it tweeted.
Assam police’s special director general G.P. Singh asked the public to avoid using the route till the road block is cleared.
Please avoid travelling from Silchar towards Guwahati till the road block is cleared, he tweeted. An official bulletin said communication channels have been snapped in Dima Hasao since Sunday due to the heavy rains.
Landslides and roads
cave ins at different locations have led to disruption of road communication to the district.
A Northeast Frontier Railway spokesperson said landslides and waterlogging on tracks in Lumding Badarpur section have snapped train communication to Barak Valley, Manipur, Tripura and Mizoram.
Work to restore the railway line is on at a war footing, he added.
Meanwhile, around 2 lakh people in 20 districts of Assam have been affected by floods, an official bulletin said on Monday.
Two flood-related deaths were reported in Cachar district, while three fatalities due to landslides were earlier recorded in Dima Hasao.
Around 1,97,248 people
have been affected by the deluge, with Hojai and Cachar being the worst hit with 78,157 and 51,357 people affected population respectively, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) bulletin said.
Altogether 652 villages in 46 revenue circles in 20 districts have been affected so far, it said.
Around 55 relief camps have been opened in seven districts, sheltering 32,959 people. Another 12 relief distribution centres are also operational in different affected districts.
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Fire and Emergency Services, besides locals, have been carrying out rescue operations in the flood-hit areas. — PTI