A rain-powered hungry Brahmaputra is gnawing at Dibrugarh’s threshold, raising fears that the river may lick the town in no time.
Just 3km from here the river has been swallowing meter after meter of land in Nagagholee since last Sunday, threatening to erode the Oakland-Nagagholee-Maijan-Dibrugarh dyke.
If the river manages to touch the dyke, it will threaten the existence of Dibrugarh town, and even Mohanbari Airport.
The way the river is eroding the area, it might take just another day or two for the river to divert its channel towards the Dibrugarh main town through Mijan and Assam Medical College and Hospital. As erosion continues unabated, the authorities of Greenwood tea estate in Nagagholee have begun shifting people from the area.
Till now we have shifted around 250 families from the locality as their land has been washed away or in under threat of being wiped out any minute.
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