Border Roads Organisation Sends Emergency Aid to Assam Flood Victims

Itanagar: Border Roads Organisation workers in Pasighat launched a massive relief effort for flood-ravaged Assam. Personnel from Project Brahmank and their families pooled their own cash and goods to help. The group collected rice, blankets, clothes, and footwear for families losing everything to the rising water. The haul arrived in Dibrugarh on August 4 and went straight to the Rotary Club of Dibrugarh for local distribution.

Assam faces a grim situation. Rivers like the Dikhow and the Dhansiri have burst their banks. Water has swallowed up villages, wrecked roads, and ruined precious crops. Residents in Sivasagar, Charaideo, Jorhat, Golaghat, Dhemaji, Sonitpur, and Bajali are fleeing to higher ground. People are losing livestock while electricity, clean water, and medical care remain scarce. Roads and embankments show deep scars from the current.

Chief Engineer Pankaj Goyal directed the mission from the Headquarters Chief Engineer (Project) Brahmank. The agency claims this effort highlights their core principle of "service beyond duty" when the country faces a crisis. While the BRO usually builds roads and bridges in remote spots, this operation signals a different kind of labor. It targets a disaster that has isolated thousands and stalled the region's recovery.