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Villagers are being evacuated by the NDRF in the flood-affected Panbesa village in Sivsagar district of Assam.
| Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar
GUWAHATI Human factors, and not necessarily climate change, worsened the floods in a part of eastern Assam that killed at least 103 people, a global collaborative study has said.
According to the World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international scientific collaboration, heavy monsoonal rainfall in northeastern India has remained within historical norms, but land-use changes have increased the impacts and risks to the people and their livelihoods.
Between late June and early August, eastern Assam—particularly Sivasagar, Charaideo, and Jorhat districts—alongside hill catchments in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh, experienced intense monsoonal downpours.
The resulting deluge breached critical infrastructure, washed away agricultural land, and forced hundreds of thousands into relief camps. Thousands of livestock and other domesticated animals were also affected.