Assam floods: Rajnath Singh presides over high-level meeting
"A high level meeting is currently underway where the HM is reviewing the flood situation in Assam with CM &officials," HMO India tweeted.
Rajnath Singh on Saturday visited the flood affected areas of Assam to take stock of the damage in the state.
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.
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.
Image: HMO India
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