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Gogoi makes aerial survey of flood affected areas

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Press Trust of India Guwahati
Last Updated : Jan 20 2013 | 5:29 AM IST

Gogoi made the survey of flood-hit Morigaon, Darrang, Sonitpur, Lakhimpur and Dhemaji districts, besides the severely-affected Kaziranga National Park and the world's largest river island, Majuli, official sources said.

The Chief Minister directed the district authorities to leave no stone unturned in providing all possible help to the flood-affected people and asked the ministers to closely monitor the situation to ensure that each and every affected person got relief material.

"We have to reach out to the flood-affected people and provide succour to them in their hour of need," he said.

The government's top priority was to rescue the marooned people and provide relief material to the affected, he said.

He directed the district authorities to ensure supply of tarpaulin, bleaching powder, phenyl and other relief material to the affected and to ensure safe drinking water by installing tube wells.

The Chief Minister also directed the administration to keep sufficient number of country boats ready for rescue and relief operations.

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In Morigaon, the Chief Minister, accompanied by Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Nazrul Islam and Minister for Fisheries Basanta Das, interacted with the inmates of Manaha Santipur relief camp and Jhargaon relief camp.

The Chief Minister would also undertake an aerial survey of flood-hit areas of Sibsagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts and hold review meetings with district administrations of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia tomorrow.

  

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First Published: Sep 28 2012 | 6:15 PM IST

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