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CM Sonowal takes stock of flood situation, chairs flood review meeting at Silchar
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.
Interacted with inhabitants of the flood relief camp at Malini, Silchar and took stock of relief and rescue operations.
Held a meeting with various officials there and directed them to provide fast relief. pic.twitter.com/gCzH27SZlb
— Sarbananda Sonowal (@sarbanandsonwal) July 17, 2019
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.
