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#AssamFloods: How incessant rain and the Barak river in spate overwhelmed Silchar town

Large parts of the flood-ravaged state’s second-biggest urban centre are under water as the government struggles to rescue stranded residents.
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By @ROKIBUZZAMAN2

#AssamFloods: “There is no electricity, no drinking water,” Biswas, who teaches at Silchar's Cachar College, told @ROKIBUZZAMAN2.

“In my lane, it is six-feet-deep water. Most of the city is under water.” scroll.in/a/1026724

#AssamFloods: With an estimated population of three lakh, Silchar is the biggest town and commercial hub in Assam’s Barak Valley.

The city is now struggling to deal with the devastation caused by floods scroll.in/a/1026724

#Silchar has already been battered by rainfall far exceeding the monthly average for June.

As per data provided by a senior scientist at the IMD, the town received 930mm of actual rainfall, a departure of 490mm from the normal, this month till June 21. scroll.in/a/1026724

#AssamFloods | “We knew that the dyke [embankment at Bethukandi] was developing breaches,” said Joydeep, a resident. “But the district administration did nothing to stop the breach.” scroll.in/a/1026724

By Sunday evening, the river had inundated main parts of Silchar town.

Pallabi Dey Purkayastha, a resident of Silchar town, recounted a terrifying night of water flooding the town from 6.30pm on Sunday.

“Within an hour or so, parts of the town were submerged and the rest of it went under water as the night progressed" scroll.in/a/1026724

#AssamFloods:In May, too, heavy pre-monsoon rainfall triggered floods that wreaked havoc in the Barak Valley, especially Cachar district where over 1.59 lakh residents had been affected, according to the state disaster management agency’s data from May 19. scroll.in/a/1026724

How incessant rain and the Barak river in spate overwhelmed #Assam’s Silchar town

Large parts of the flood-ravaged state’s second biggest urban centre are under water as the government struggles to rescue stranded residents.

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