Overview
- On Thursday Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and said Modi reaffirmed the Centre’s unwavering support for Assam’s flood recovery roadmap.
- Following that meeting Sarma also briefed Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and met Union minister Pralhad Joshi to secure budgetary backing and sector-level help for education, food supply and renewable energy.
- The Assam government has published first-phase assessment figures and plans a public web portal; so far officials report damage to about 26,681 houses, 18,887 cattle sheds and losses linked to roughly 41,000 handlooms with provisional direct losses near Rs 480 crore.
- Authorities warn the assessment covers only about 30% of affected areas and that final losses could exceed Rs 1,000 crore while official casualty totals stand at about 105 and thousands remain affected in Upper Assam districts.
- The meetings both reinforce the state’s 100-day 'Viksit Assam' narrative and set up near-term priorities to rebuild homes, restore livelihoods, strengthen water infrastructure and seek central funds and program support; the key next developments to watch are the portal data release and formal central funding decisions.