117 dead in Assam floods till now this year; toll over 5 years 880: MHA informs Rajya Sabha
Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha by MP Sushmita Dev, Minister of State of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai on Thursday stated that, as per information furnished by the State Government of Assam, 880 casualties have been reported due to floods in Assam from 2019 to July 25 this year.
«157 casualties reported in 2019, 190 in 2020, 73 in 2021, 278 in 2022, 65 in 2023 and 117 in this year up to July 25,» Rai said in the Upper House of Parliament.
He further said that the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have prepared a state-level flood hazard zonation atlas for Assam using satellite data of 1998-2023. This serves as non-structural resources for flood hazard management, for developmental planning.
«North Eastern Space Applications Centre (NESAC)/ Department of Space (DOS) has generated River Atlas consisting of a geospatial database of Brahmaputra River in Assam, including river and drainage network, embankment locations, river gauge locations, road/ rail network etc. at 1:5000 scale. This database is helpful for the planning and management of water resources,» the MoS of Home Affairs said.
«NESAC, Department of Space (DOS) has also identified 271 wetlands, which can be utilized for channelising excess water from rivers, including the Brahmaputra River, during monsoon season. NESAC has also developed a Flood Early Warning System (FLEWS) for the Brahmaputra basin in the state of Assam based on numerical rainfall prediction and a physics-based distributed
