The Assam government has begun a door-to-door assessment of flood damage across affected districts to document losses suffered by families, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. The survey will cover houses, livestock and other household assets.
Officials will visit affected families to record damage at the individual household level, with the exercise scheduled to continue until August 31, according to Sarma.
The information collected during the assessment will be used to determine the rehabilitation assistance due to each affected household. The government intends to use the records to identify eligible beneficiaries based on documented losses.
“No family will be left behind in getting their due rehabilitation benefits,” Sarma said in a social media post.
The assessment forms part of the State government’s ongoing flood response and rehabilitation measures. Officials are expected to document losses suffered by individual families during visits to affected households.
The survey will include damage to residential houses, livestock and other household assets. The household-level assessment is intended to provide the basis for determining rehabilitation assistance under the applicable norms.
Sarma said the government would ensure that every flood-affected family is covered by the exercise and receives the rehabilitation benefits it is entitled to.
The State government has not provided in the material supplied a district-wise breakdown of the areas covered by the assessment or the number of households expected to be surveyed.
How Flood Rehabilitation Benefits Will Be Determined
The damage records collected during the door-to-door exercise will be used to assess the losses of individual households and determine the assistance due to eligible beneficiaries.
The government’s stated objective is to ensure that families affected by the floods are not excluded from the rehabilitation process because their losses have not been documented.
The assessment is scheduled to continue through August 31. The material supplied does not specify when rehabilitation payments will begin, the total amount earmarked for assistance or the timeline for completing disbursements after the survey.
