Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will visit flood-affected areas of Silchar and Barak Valley today. AIR correspondent reports that the ongoing second spate of floods in the Barak Valley has now submerged the whole city of Silchar within a high velocity flood water stream getting continuously flown out of the river Barak. Water-level inside the city is now varying up to eight feet in height and increasing while the water level of the Barak river at Annapurnaghat is decreasing, as river water is freely coming inside the city from multiple points. All the roads of the city have turned into waterways. Dead bodies cannot be cremated as the Burning Ghats and Burial Grounds are all under water.
Water logging in all the roads has also led to the collapse of the medical facilities as nobody can approach those without plying boats through the city roads. The railway connection was washed out at Haflong Station earlier itself during the previous flood one-month back. Now roadways are also closed for landslides, land erosion, and water logging. Disconnected and water-marooned Barak Valley and its cities including Silchar are struggling for their life due to acute scarcity of drinking water. Disruption of power services has also led people to get disconnected from mobile and the internet.
Army, SDRF, and NDRF personnel are working round the clock for relief work but in view of the huge waterlogged population of three lakh, relief workers are very much in demand for evacuation. Getting a large portion of the water marooned three lakh people of the city of Silchar evacuated to nearby high lands and distributing water to the stranded people are the most crucial needs of the hour to save the thousands of lives who are in mortal danger now.