Gogoi surveys flood damage, promises speedy relief

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Fridaymade an aerial survey of flood-affected districts of the state, including Kaziranga National Park and river island Majuli, and reviewed the prevailing situation with ministers and senior officials of the districts.

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.