Two men wade through flood water at Goalpara in Assam. (Press Trust of India)
Air Force helicopters have been pressed into service and Army, NDRF and SDRF personnel engaged in rescue and relief operations in flood-hit Assam where 10 people have died.
Seventy-eight relief camps were set up in the worst-hit Goalpara district where five people died and over 50,000 people have been affected due to heavy rains in the state and neighbouring Meghalaya, District Deputy Commissioner Pritam Saikia said.
A team of engineers has been sent to restore a damaged bridge at Krishnai on NH 37, he said.
With rains letting up, rescue and relief operation are on and Air Force choppers have been pressed into service to rescue marooned people in Dudhnoi, Krishnai and Bolbola.
Army, NDRF and SDRF have also been engaged for rescue work. However, majority of the people have come down on their own, Mr Saikia said.
The flood situation in Kamrup (Rural) district turned grim with bodies of two women recovered from a paddy field in Boko area, police said.
Vast tracts of land have been inundated in Chaygaon, Nagarberra, Goroimari and Boko as water of rivers Kulsi, Jaljanli, Singra, Kolohi and Brahmaputra gushed in following heavy rains in neighbouring Meghalaya, Deputy Commissioner J Balaji said.
Road communications along National Highway 37, flooded in various places, have been disrupted and a concrete bridge between Nagarbera and Hekra was washed away, he said.
Medicines have been dispatched to the flood-hit areas.
Besides, water purifiers, hand pumps, mobile water treatment plants and pumping equipment have also been sent, a disaster management official said. .
The situation in Guwahati, where two persons have died following heavy rains in the past three days, is also improving as rains stopped.
Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner M Angamuthu has called in the Army to assist the civil administration in rescuing and providing relief to the people in flood and landslide affected areas in and around the city.
The Deputy Commissioner along with Chief Minister's Principal Secretary M G V K Bhanu visited during the day the severely-affected areas of the state capital and assured the people that all relief would be provided to the affected.
All government and private educational institutions in and around the city would remain closed for the third consecutive day today, an official spokesman said.
The situation in Dhubri district, bordering Bangladesh, was grim with water level of the Brahmaputra river showing an upward trend.
People were being moved to safer places, Deputy Commissioner Kumud Kalita said.
One child was killed and three others were injured in landslides in Hatisinghmari area of the district, he said.
The rains have severely affected electric supply and telephone services in both Goalpara and Dhubri districts.
Train services in central Assam's Morigaon district were also affected as rain water submerged rail tracks between Jagiroad and Dharamtul stations, Northeast Frontier Railway spokesman said.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi held an emergency meeting with senior officials during the day on Tuesday to take stock of the situation and directed the authorities concerned to take all-out measures to deal with the situation, CMO officials said.