Sarbananda Sonowal Holds Review Meeting In Silchar ; looking for a permanent path to resolve the floods of Assam.
July 17: Chief Minister of Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal was on his Barak Valley visit on Wednesday to take stock of the flood
situation in Barak Valley. Early during the day, the Chief Minister landed at
Silchar’s Kumbirgram airport in a chartered flight. The Chief Minister was
welcomed at Masimpur army camp by MLA Kishor Nath in presence of Cachar DC Laya
Madduri and Hailakandi DC J Keerti. Sonowal interacted with the inhabitants of
the flood relief camp at Malini Bil, Silchar and took stock of relief and
rescue operations.
In the wake
of damage and havoc wave of flood in Barak valley Region, CM Sonowal held a
review meeting with all the heads of the departments and concerned officials at
the conference hall of D.C’s office Cachar and took stock of the prevailing
flood situation in the Barak valley region. Cachar Deputy
Commissioner Laya Madduri and Hailakandi Deputy Commissioner Keerthi
Jalli apprised Sri Sarbananda Sonowal about the measures being undertaken to
tackle the flood in respective districts.
The Deputy
Commissioners apprised the Chief Minister Cachar District ,a total of 6
relief camps have been set up. As per report from DDMA Cachar 16,231 numbers of
people have been affected and 432 hectares of crop area have been damaged due
to current wave of flood while no loss of human life is reported so
far. In his day long visit to Barak valley,Sarbananda Sonowal was also
accompanied by Minister of Forest and Environment Parimal sukhlabadya ,MLAs
Ramendra Narayan Kalita ,Nomal Momin and Bimal Bora.
Expressing
his concern over the havoc caused by the recent wave of flood Sri Sarbananda
Sonowal directed the officials to reach out to the flood victims and take every
step possible with utmost dedication and sincerity to prevent loss of human
lives and livestock .He also laid emphasis on strengthening the vulnerable
embankments in the entire region so that damage due to flood can be minimised.
The review
meeting was also attended by the DIG Southern range P.K kalita, Commissioner of
Barak valley region Anwaruddin Choudhury, Cachar S.P Mugdhajyoti Dev
Mahanta, S.P Hailakandi Manish Misra and MLAs of Cachar and Hailakandi
districts- Dilip Kumar Paul, Amarchand jain, Aminul Islam laskar, Kishore Nath,
Mihir Kanti Shome were also present in the review meeting held today.
After Looking entire Barak Valley CM says :
Assam's flood is going to be recognized as a national problem,
indicated from Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal's speech. He came to the Bay of Barak
to see the flood situation on Wednesday. Visited with helicopter to different
wild areas of three districts. In the meeting with the district administration
of Karimganj and Silchar Speaking in the interaction with journalists, the
Chief Minister said that for a long time the demand for the declaration of the
flood of Assam as a national problem was being made
As this time the central has shown interest in this, says Sonowal
He said that they are looking for a permanent path to resolve the floods of
Assam. The representative team of the Commission has advised to create a
North-East Water Management Body for that. That's the way to solve the
solution. In all, Central Govt. seems to be doing something special with the flood
of Assam he adds. Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sonowal said, without
any asking he has given Rs. 251 crore relief Funf for Assam. The Chief Minister
himself mentioned that Barak will also share the money. That is why he asked to
send a detailed description of the loss of the district officials. Chief
Minister said that 32 out of 33 districts of Assam were affected by floods.
Five million people suffer from suffering
