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Home Minister Rajnath Singh visits flood affected Assam

| | Jul 30, 2016, at 08:03 pm
Guwahati, July 30 (IBNS) : Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited the flood affected areas of Assam to take stock of the damage, reports said.

Singh was accompanied by Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Minister for DoNER Jitendra Singh as a he conducted an aerial survey of  Nagaon and Morigaon districts besides the Kaziranga national park.

Almost 80 per cent of the Kaziranga national park is submerged in water.

Singh is expected to meet Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and state government officers in Guwahati before returning to Delhi in the evening.

So far 13 people have died and about 18 lakh people  in 22 districts affected in the flood in the state.

The affected districts are Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Jorhat, Bongaigaon, Dhemaji, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri, Darrang, Morigaon, Sonitpur, Nalbari, Sivasagar, Kokrajhar, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Biswanath, Kamrup Metropolitan, Chirang, Nagaon, Kamrup and South Kamrup.


 

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