Jorhat has become the latest district in Assam to face the flood fury with nearly one lakh people being affected in the last two days, officials said today.
Lakhimpur in Brahmaputra valley and Cachar and Karimganj in Barak valley have been already hit by floods.
JORHAT, May 14: Wild elephants unable to forage on the lush green vegetation on Naga hills due to ongoing jhum cultivation ransacked a number of fields in the Dihingapar area. A few houses of workers at the Kathonibari tea estate and the shop of one Purna Bora of Meleng were destroyed in the rampage.
JORHAT, April 28: Man-elephant conflict has taken a toll on Jorhat district last year as nearly 300 families were affected by elephant depredation, the Jorhat Forest Department said. The district has seen a rise in jumbo rampages in the last five years, Forest Department sources added.
JORHAT, April 22: Three leopard cubs have been caught by the local people at Sensua tea garden under Pulibor Police Station of Jorhat district this morning. Forest Department sources said that the cubs were caught by the people when they appeared before the garden workers.
The forest personnel also tried to capture their mother but it fled away.
JORHAT, March 25: In a bid to regulate the traffic chaos in Jorhat town, the district administration has taken a slew of measures to regulate traffic. Starting with the banning of rickshaws on the AT Road, which resulted in a strike, the administration next hauled up the Tata Magics and City Rides banning them from illegally parking on the AT Road and near the Government Girls
More than 4,85,674 hectares of forest land of Assam are under encroachment by its neghbouring states and other authorities on date, this has been published in a report of the Central Government. According to the report, Assam is on the top of the list among other states of the country in terms of encroachment in forest land.
