Home Minister Rajnath Singh visits flood affected Assam
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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