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Guwahati, Assam: Cities across Assam are facing ongoing waterlogging issues, especially during the rainy season, causing serious concerns among residents. Roads become impassable, homes get submerged, and public life is disrupted. In cities like Guwahati, the situation worsens with each spell of heavy rain. APCC General Secretary Bipul Gogoi commented on the waterlogging issue in the city, saying, "I urge the government to focus on proper recovery plans rather than only launching beneficiary schemes, so that the people of Guwahati don’t have to face such problems in the future." Minister Pijush Hazarika said, "In the past four years, we have made significant progress. Earlier, our department used to spend only ₹200 to ₹300 crore annually on flood control. But now, under the leadership of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, we are spending nearly ₹2000 crore each year to manage and reduce the impact of floods."

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00:00I'm sorry, you haven't heard of it yet.
00:07I'm sorry.
00:22We are very sorry to see the devastating situation
00:51in Guwahati yesterday, where my campus was inundated in flood.
00:58Not only my campus, under Guwahati city, our Maligao, Sanmari, Nobin Nagar, then Rukmini
01:06Gow, and many areas of Guwahati city, totally it was submerged under this flood.
01:12And our minister, Guwahati development minister, Joanne Tamala visited Rukmini Gow, and he said
01:19it is because of the flash flood which is flowing from Meghalo hills.
01:24And once upon a time, Ashok Singhal, he said the colors of the water, flash flood, it signifies
01:32that it is coming from Meghalo, but it is not because of that.
01:35They are constructing so many flyovers in Guwahati, which is not at all necessary.
01:41But main purpose, we have to take up the drainage system.
01:46Scientific drainage system should be installed.
01:49We should go ahead, we should take up schemes so that we can drain out the flood, flash floods
01:55to Brahmaputu.
01:56Brahmaputu is flowing through just nearby Guwahati.
02:00So we can take out this flash flood into Brahmaputu, if we take some scientific approach, then we
02:07can remove this disasterousness.
02:11And when our former chief minister, Honorable chief minister, Dr. Hemantavishra Varma, he
02:16shouted in public meetings that there is no underdevelopment, there is only development, development, development.
02:24But because of those words yesterday, it penetrated into devastating floods.
02:30So he told that in every world, government would spend 10 pros, where is that money?
02:39Where are those money?
02:40Where is the development?
02:41If they would have taken proper steps to drain out of this flood, then the people of Lukmenigam
02:48would have not suffered.
02:50Yesterday, I saw it in the TV channel, even their bedrooms, it was submerged.
02:56Small children, they don't have any food yesterday to take.
03:00It is so pathetic.
03:02So I appealed the government, they should take proper schemes.
03:05Instead of these beneficiary schemes, they should take recovery schemes so that the people
03:11of Guwahati, they don't suffer in closer.
03:14See a lot of things we have done in last four years.
03:18Earlier, our department spent only 200 to 300 pros per year to mitigate to control flood.
03:26But under the guidance of Hemantavishra Sarma Ranguriya, we are spending around 2000 pros per
03:33year so that we can mitigate flood.
03:36Flood in Hemaji, Flood in Morigaon, Flood in Majuli, Flood in Lokhempur have been mitigated,
03:44I think, 70%.
03:45Flood in Nolbari, Flood in Borag Valley, I think all over Assam have able to mitigate 70% flood.
03:54But next 30% also we need to mitigate, for that we are working, we will work.
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