Assam floods hit 2.25 lakh people
The Hindu
Crops on 16,338.46 hectares of land have been affected.
More than 2.25 lakh people in 15 of Assam’s 34 districts have been affected by . The Brahmaputra and several of its tributaries have swollen following incessant rains in Assam and adjoining Arunachal Pradesh, where erosion has affected dozens of villages in the Siang River belt. The affected districts in Assam are Baksa, Barpeta, Biswanath, Bongaigaon, Chirang, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Golaghat, Jorhat, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Morigaon, Sivasagar, Sonitpur and Tinsukia.More Related News

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