Brahmaputra Rising: Assam Schools Under Water

Guwahati, Sep 22 : As the Brahmaputra flows above the danger level in several areas across Assam, a large number of students have been out of their classes with schools going under water.

It's the eighth wave of flood in Assam and the water level of the Brahmaputra has been steadily rising.

Eighteen lakh people have been affected across the state. Homes have been destroyed, lakhs of hectares of agricultural land has gone which will lead to unemployment. But something which perhaps no one has noticed are schools.

Twenty schools across the state are inundated which means the students have been out of their classes for the last three months.

Not just schools, all educational institutions in the flood affected areas have shut down.
Bikram and his friends studying in Class XII have already lost out on two months of classes.
"A little water and our college gets submerged. For months now our classes have been suspended," he says.

The rainfall has been adequate this year. So, the only cause for such extensive flood devastation are weak embankments in low lying areas.