"We will seek Rs 500 crore as interim relief from the Centre... Many areas are still under water, so the final assessment of damage will take some time," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told a press conference here.
The state government, he said, has adequate funds for immediate relief operations, but central assistance will be required to carry out repair of damaged infrastructure.
As to the current flood situation, Gogoi said rainfall had stopped at most places in the state and the water level was slowly receding.
"As soon as the water level goes down, we will start assessing the damage to roads, embankments, bridges and other vital infrastructure," said Gogoi.
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Meanwhile, the daily bulletin from the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said that 8.33 lakh people have been hit by floods in 984 villages across the state.
The affected districts are Dhemaji, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Bongaigaon, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Jorhat, Goalpara, Morigaon, Dhubri, Kamrup, Golaghat and Nagaon, where nearly 50,000 hectares of crop land has been inundated, it said.
Authorities are running 164 relief camps in Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Dhubri, Morigaon, Nagaon, Barpeta, Sonitpur and Kamrup districts where nearly 1.6 lakh people have taken shelter, it said.
The Brahmaputra river is flowing above the danger mark at Nematighat in Jorhat district, Goalpara and Dhubri towns.
Besides, Jia Bharali at NT Road crossing in Sonitpur, Puthimari at NH Road crossing at Kamrup and Beki at Road Bridge in Barpeta are also flowing above the danger marks.
The current floods has claimed 13 lives across Assam, taking the toll in this year's two waves of flooding to 18.