An official in Assam said that the flood situation in Assam was serious on Tuesday with nearly 31,000 people still reeling under the deluge across 10 districts of the state, news agency PTI reported.
According to PTI report, the India Meteorological Department has issued a Red Alert.
And predicted very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall across several districts of Assam over the next five days.
In a Special Weather Bulletin, IMDs Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Guwahati issued a Red Alert for 24 hours from Monday.
Thus followed by Orange Alerts for the subsequent two days and Yellow Alert for Thursday.
Red Alert signifies taking immediate action. While Orange Alert implies to prepared for action and Yellow Alert stands for watch and updated.
According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA).
More than 30,700 people hit due to floods in Chirang, Darrang, Dhemaji, Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Nalbari, Sonitpur and Udalguri districts.
Lakhimpur district the worst hit with over 22,000 people affected. As followed by Dibrugarh with more than 3,800 people and Kokrajhar with almost 1,800 persons, it added.
The administration has been running 25 relief distribution centres in seven districts. But no relief camp is operating as of now.
At present, 444 villages are under water and 4,741.23 hectares of crop areas have damaged across Assam, ASDMA said.