telegraph.co.uk
Rupamoni Payeng, a mother-of-three said it was the third time this year she had fled to an elevated section of land on the submerged island of Majuli to escape flooding.
"We had to come here in June and August," she said, huddled inside a tarpaulin tent with the rest of her family.
She said the mood among other flood victims on the island, which is around 220 miles from Guwahati, was getting desperate.
"We have not got any relief supplies from the government and are almost starving," she said.
"Some food packets were dropped by helicopters, but there was a mad scramble and only a few managed to collect."
The floods and the scale of displacement is the latest in a series of natural and man-made disasters to blight Assam in recent months. An estimated 400,000 people had been forced to flee their homes this summer after outbreaks of ethnic violence between local Assamese and Muslim Bangladeshi migrants left 80 people dead.
The Brahmaputra has flooded three times this monsoon season, the worst the state has faced since 2004 when 200 people lost their lives and an estimated five million people fled their homes.
A poor response by the state government and the relief agency has provoked strong criticism of its chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who is currently in Japan on a study tour.
"We had to come here in June and August," she said, huddled inside a tarpaulin tent with the rest of her family.
She said the mood among other flood victims on the island, which is around 220 miles from Guwahati, was getting desperate.
"We have not got any relief supplies from the government and are almost starving," she said.
"Some food packets were dropped by helicopters, but there was a mad scramble and only a few managed to collect."
The floods and the scale of displacement is the latest in a series of natural and man-made disasters to blight Assam in recent months. An estimated 400,000 people had been forced to flee their homes this summer after outbreaks of ethnic violence between local Assamese and Muslim Bangladeshi migrants left 80 people dead.
The Brahmaputra has flooded three times this monsoon season, the worst the state has faced since 2004 when 200 people lost their lives and an estimated five million people fled their homes.
A poor response by the state government and the relief agency has provoked strong criticism of its chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who is currently in Japan on a study tour.
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