HARESWAR BORAH,
Nagaon, June 30: District Unit of All Assam Students' Union (AASU) today staged a sit in protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner, Nagaon and demanded the union government to declare the flood situation as well as erosion across the embankment of mighty Brahmaputra and its tributaries of the state as national issue. Besides, the students' organization also urged the state BJP led alliance government to ensure sufficient supplies of food materials, drinking water, sanitary facilities, medicine, mosquito nets in almost all flood relief camps set up in the district. Over hundred of agitators led by the president and incharge secretary of the district unit of the students' organization respectively Gauri Shankar Saikia, Kankanjyoti Boruah and central executive Rantu Sarma, participated in the stir and shouted various slogans. During the stir, the protesters also demanded immediate assistance from the government as well as rehabilitation of the flood-hit families under Kampur, Raha, Nagaon and other flood ravaged revenue circles of the district. Meanwhile, the state agriculture minister Atul Bora today participated in a community seeds sowing programme for a community nursery in around 6 hectares of land under 'Brahmaputra Krishak Utpadok Sangstha' at Laokhuwa. The minister himself sat on steering of a tractor and ploughed over 6 hectares of land. The programme was held with a view to supply paddy saplings from the community nursery to the flood-hit farmers of the district soon after the flood. The minister on Wednesday last made an announcement that the department concerned planned to set community nursery for paddy saplings in 90 hectares in the district to distribute saplings among the flood hit farmers of the district and as part of it, the department concerned today initiated the step to produce saplings in around 6 hectares of land at Laokhuwa community nursery. District agriculture officer Tarun Hazarika, senior agriculture officers - Praneswar Nath, Ranjan Pratim Deka, Bishnu Sarma, Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury and other members of Brahmaputra Krishak Utpadok Sangstha were present in the programme, a release added. As per an official report, over 35,000 farmers families of 3,338 villages in Nagaon district were affected by the recent wave of flood in which over 19000 hectares of farmland were submerged by flood water. On the other hand, the local MP Pradyut Bordoloi today visited the flood ravaged areas in the greater Kampur and reviewed the flood situation there. During his trip, Bordoloi also visited several flood relief camps and interacted with the inmates. Besides, he distributed food materials, drinking water and other among those inmates of the relief camps. While speaking to some local media persons here, Bordoloi said that it happened due to sudden release of additional water from Kapili hydroelectric power project. Bordoloi was accompanied by district Congress president Suresh Bora and other members of district Congress.
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