Guwahati:ย The flood situation in Assam worsened further on Tuesday with a total ofย 3,07,489 people inย 756ย villages across 21 districtsย being affected by the deluge.
The affected districts are Biswanath, Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Golaghat, Jorhat, Kamrup, Kamrup Metropolitan, Kokrakhar, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Morigaon, Nagaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Sonitpur, Tamulpur and Udalguri.
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Lakhimpur remains the worst-affected district where 71,889ย people have been affected, followed byย Majuli (47,163), Golaghat (40,921), Biswanath (37,420), Darrang (27,941), Sivasagar (21,754) and Dhemaji (20,352).
A total ofย 698ย people have been taking shelter inย 91ย relief camps set up by the respective district administrations across nine affected districts of the state.
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Theย delugeย has also affected overย 21,591ย hectares of cropland in the affected districts. Altogether, 2,69,633ย livestock and poultry have also been affected by the floods.ย
Scores of houses, roads, bridges and other infrastructures have been damaged and embankments breached in several districts.
The State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), personnel of the Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES), district administration and volunteers of the Aapda Mitra have been carrying out the rescue and relief operations.
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Meanwhile, the river Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger level mark at Dibrugarh, Dhubri, Guwahati, Tezpur and Jorhatโs Neamatighat.
On the other hand, the Beki River is flowing above the danger level mark at Road Bridge in Barpeta, rivers Disang at Nanglamuraghat in Sivasagar, Dikhou at Sivasagar and Subansiri at Badatighat in Lakhimpur district.