Guwahati: Over 500 embankment breaches by the ravaging annual floods have been recorded in Assam up to now one decade (2013-2022), in line with Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA). The state noticed the very best breaches in 2015 when 283 breaches have been recorded.
According to information supplied by the ASDMA, a complete of 40 breaches have been recorded final 12 months and consequently over 88 lakh inhabitants throughout all the prevailing 35 districts (earlier than the state authorities re-merged 4 districts with their dad or mum districts in December final 12 months) within the state.
The authority has submitted the flood memorandum 2022 to the ministry of house affairs, the place it has requested for over Rs 3,000 crore, which embrace over Rs 1,700 crore for water sources division underneath which restore of embankments and flood-control constructions come. Five embankments have been breached in 2021 whereas 24 in 2020, 38 in 2019, 25 in 2018, 26 in 2017, 26 in 2016, 31 in 2014 and 17 in 2013.