Assam flood situation eases

The flood situation in Assam has eased today with the mighty Brahmaputra maintaining a falling trend along its course in the 11 affected districts in the valley, even as the Barak valley's water level is rising displacing over five lakh people.

Though it was flowing over the danger level at some places, Brahmaputra with its tributaries was recording a falling trend due to declining rain in the last few days, official sources said.

The flood waters were ebbing from human habitation and farm lands in the affected districts of Lakhimpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Dhubri, Goalpara and Barpeta, the sources said.

The Central Water Commission said the Brahmaputra was flowing with a falling trend, though above the danger level, at Dibrugarh town in Dibrugarh district, Numaligarh in Golaghat district and Guwahati.

In Jorhat district the river was flowing steadily above the danger level at Nimatighat, the river port to Asia's largest river island Majuli in the state, and at Dharamtul in Morigaon district, the CWC said.

Tributaries Jiabhorali at NT Road Crossing in Sonitpur district and Pagladia in Barpeta district flowing above the danger mark were, however, rising.