THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ASSAM & BIHAR FLOODS

ASSAM

• 31 death reported. 17 lakhs people affected.
• In all the 4 relief camps, 100% of the families have food availability for up to a week.
• 100% damage to food storages in the families.
• 90% agricultural tools have been lost.
• 100% of the respondents noted that the loss of livestock is acute.
• Agricultural land is under water and crops have been damaged.
• Coming days and years will be a great crucial for the people in terms of livelihood.
• Daily wagers earners are at wits end
• Out of 256 damaged houses 36 houses were fully damaged. Families are now taking shelter along the road side, embankment and public buildings.
• Kitchen utensils, bedding and blankets are damaged or washed away.
• No reports of harassment of women, law and order at present.
• Countless number of roads and embankment has been damaged.
• Health concerns are high with complaints of stomach pain, headache, skin rush, fever & with possibility of health hazard due to cattle around the relief camps.
• Schools when reopen after the summer vacation will have difficulties.
• No proper toilets and bath rooms for the ladies and for the young girls.
• Lack cooking facilities.

Table showing data of the assessed villages by Caritas India between July 25-26

Floods in Assam pushed this family out to the streets. In the picture, a lady in Ghilmara village under Dhemaji district grinding rice on the roadside as her house lay submerged.

OVERALL SCENERIO

• 16, 68, 865 lakh people affected across 2,964 villages in 21 districts as on 27th July 2016.
• The flood related death toll has also gone up to three in the state.
• Inundated districts are Tinsukia, Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Kokrajhar, Chirang, Bongaigaon, Golaghat, Morigaon, Jorhat,
• Dhemaji, Sivsagar, Barpeta, Nagaon, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur, Biswanath, Darrang and Nalbari.
• Government have opened 472 relief camps and 186 distribution centre having 1, 12,853 inmates and more than 22,931 marooned people.
• In Jorhat and Chirang alone 220 and 13 houses were damaged fully. But in reality the number of fully house damaged will be more than 600.

BIHAR

• 4.51 Lakh people hit. 9 deaths.
• The flood has hit 273 Panchyats, including 132 fully and 141 partially.
• Among the affected districts- Purnea, kisanganj, Araria, katihar, Madhepura, supaul, Darbhanga, Madhubani, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur.
• Around NH 57 most affected blocks are Supaul, Kishanpu Saraigadh Baphtahiyahi, Nirmali Marwana, and Basantpur
• The flood has claimed 06 human lives in in supaul as per officially reported by the ADM Supaul.
• The water level of kosh iriver near Baltara and Kursela is 111 cm and 1 cm above the danger line respectively.
• Around 52216 displaced people taken shelter at different part of the high land.
• Caritas team is working mainly in Supaul & Purniya districts
• 130 villages of 06 Panchyats in 06 blocks of Supaul district have been inundated and near about 40000 displaced people taken shelter around NH 57 and other higher places.