GUWAHATI: As severe floods continue to inundate villages and homes across Upper Assam, thousands of families in Sivasagar and Jorhat districts are facing acute shortages of food, safe drinking water, shelter and medical support.Amid the crisis, RSS Swayamsevaks and Seva Bharati karyakartas are carrying out relief and rescue operations in several flood-affected areas.In the flood-hit Betbari area, covering Kakati Gaon, D-Gaon, No. 2 Kunwar Gaon and Chetia Kaivarta Gaon, karyakartas carried out rescue operations and shifted more than 200 people to relief camps and safer locations.Relief work is also continuing in the remote areas of Sundar Pukhuri, Bamun Pukhuri, Geleki and Rajabari in Sivasagar district, where swayamsevaks are reaching stranded families with cooked food, clean drinking water, medicines, clothing and other essential supplies.In Jorhat district, relief materials have been distributed in Alengmora, Katiram Chuk, Kulai Chuk, Nalia Chuk, Senchowa Chuk and Charigharia Chuk.The materials include tarpaulins, biscuits, candles, mosquito coils, soap, alum and other daily necessities.Using small boats, swayamsevaks are delivering food and drinking water directly to submerged homes and helping shift elderly persons, women, children and the sick to safer places.RSS volunteers said the relief work is being carried out under the spirit of “Nar Seva Hi Narayan Seva” as they continue to assist flood-affected families across Upper Assam.
