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
S.No. |
Name of Village |
Block |
District
Households
|
Male
|
Female
|
Population
|
House fully Damaged
|
House partially Damaged
|
1 |
Uttar Patgaon |
Titaguri |
Kokrajhar |
65
|
260
|
320
|
580
|
15
|
50
|
2 |
Uttar Patgaon |
Titaguri |
Kokrajhar |
12 |
25 |
29 |
54 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
Kungkrajhora |
Borobazar |
Chirang |
115 |
98 |
102 |
200 |
15 |
100 |
4 |
Sonapur |
Borobazar |
Chirang |
64 |
65 |
85 |
150 |
0 |
64 |
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.