kushiara river

Severe erosion in the kushiara river in Karimganj district has made life tough for Border Security Force (BSF) personnel who patrol the Indo-Bangaldesh border.

The kushiara river that separates India and Bangladesh in Karimganj sector of the international border has eaten up areas of barbed fencing.

The erosion caused by the kushiara river is posing a serious threat to the Indo-Bangladesh border fencing that has been constructed along the bank of the river in Karimganj district.

The swirling water of Barak River has eaten up large portions of NH-6, connecting Imphal with Karimganj via Silchar at Panchgram in the current wave of floods.

The Karimganj district administration has submitted a proposal worth Rs 60 crore to the state transformation and development department for the facelift of Sonbeel as a tourist destination.

The flood situation in Assam continued to remain grim with rising water levels of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers inundating fresh areas in the state and impacting over 55 lakh people across 32 districts, officials said on Wednesday.Eighty-nine people have lost their lives since mid-May due to the deluge, they said.

Assam reported seven more deaths, which includes three children, in floods on Tuesday, taking the toll in both deluge and landslides to 88 as the situation remained critical for a week now.

The flood situation in Assam remained grim on Saturday with the death count rising to 118 and Silchar town in Cachar district submerged for the sixth straight day, officials said.

Ten more people died in Assam's devastating floods that affected 33.03 lakh people in 28 districts on Friday, while Silchar town in Cachar district remained submerged for the fifth consecutive day, official sources said.

The flood situation in Assam remained grim with the toll touching 82 on Sunday, following the death of one more person in Barpeta district. A population of 21.68 lakh of 1,716 villages in 56 revenue circles of the state is affected by the deluge.

The overall flood situation in Assam improved considerably on Monday even as one person drowned, taking the death toll to 91, an official report said.

A research paper on Son Beel, endorsed by Hamburg University, Germany, has estimated a monetary value of the wetland ecosystem from a minimum of USD 88 per hectare a year to a maximum of USD 29,716 per hectare.

: With one more body retrieved in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Assam floods increased to 82 on Saturday, even as the overall situation showed signs of improvement across the state. The body was recovered from the Chenga area of Barpeta, one of the worst flood-hit districts, in lower Assam

According to an Assam State Disaster Management Authority report, the flood-hit districts are Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Karimganj, Karbi Anglong, Hojai, Golaghat, Sivasagar and Sonitpur overrunning 150 villages in nine revenue circles.

The state government plans on developing Silchar as one of the 'Act East cities' and as a counter-magnet area to Guwahati.