Guwahati: Munnaf Ali, a 39-year-old Goni farmer, has lived with a family of six members on the ship for the past six days when Bhutkura Part I, a river village on the edge of the Brahmaputra in Bongaiga Bongmaputra Barat District, was flooded a week ago.
Like Ali, residents of Bhutkura Part I under the North Salmara sub-division spent days and nights on ships with their livestock or on the plateau or embankment.
There was also fear of Covid-19 exposure in crowded relief camps.
“Our house is immersed in almost deep water.
There is no help or assistance from the authorities until now.
There is no food, drinking water or cleanliness,” Ali told Ti by telephone from the village, about 200 km from the state capital.
He said he had fostered a hemp at 1.5 ground fence, but all the hemp was destroyed in the flood.
Bishnu Deori (45) from Sungai Majuli Island District, about 350 km east of Guwahati, said the flood almost washed away and lowered Majuli.
“The water receded yesterday but had an impact on our fields.
Our village was underwater for more than seven days but the government had not sent aid,” Deeori, who is a farmer of Majordeuri Village, said.
Every year, the flood in Assam dispersed thousands of people.
This year, Brahmaputra continued to bring havoc after continuous rain, displacing more than 6 lakh people, the official said.
Ridkan land that is widely underwater with 22 of 34 countries that are very affected until Wednesday.
And like last year, Assam faced this eternal problem when the pandemic was still raging.
The state reported about 600 fresh covid cases and 10 average deaths every day.
The Assam Disaster Management Agency (ASDMA), which handles pandemic and flood difficulties, said the situation “increased”.
“It was controlled.
Brahmaputra’s water level recesses a little with the intensity of rain fell slightly.
Covid’s positive level is also under 1 year,” said the Chief Executive of Asdma Gyanendra Tripathi.
North-East Dinday Inn Development Society (NADS), a NGO, which aims to improve community resilience and adaptive capacity for flooding, saying flooding when Covid is actually challenging because this will overcome the difficulties of people.
“Surviving in aid camps amid chronic floods is a new normal that contributes to the cycle of vulnerabilities for thousands who live in Assam.
This is a double disaster for villagers.
Livelihoods and lives of people have been affected.
People live in stress in aid camps without sanitation, there is no drinking water and food is not enough.
They will think crazy about survival and social distance is the last thing in their minds.
There is no systematic approach in the crowded relief camps and where men , women and children, forced to live together.
This is a humanitarian crisis that will take a long time to recover from, “said Tirtha Prasad Saikia from Nads.
He said even though experts were worried that the annual flood worsened due to climate change, the state government had done a little valuable to overcome this problem.
“Although climate-related shocks become more intense and often than before, our humanitarian architecture continues to react as if they are unexpected surprises, only responding after they occur, then often slowly,” said Saikia.