Over 500 Families Living On Railway Tracks Amid The Assam Floods.

No source of safe drinking water, and we eat only once a day. says a survivor.

Assam is facing a battle with floods, resulting in over 500 families from two villages of the Jamunamukh district, are living on the railway tracks, the only high ground that did not submerge in the floodwaters.

According to the sources, people from Changjurai and Patia Pathar villages have been left in the lurch after they lost almost everything they had in the floods. The villagers, who have taken refuge under temporary sheds made of tarpaulin sheets, claim they have not received much help from the state government and district administration over the last five days.

In an official report by NDTV, a 43-year-old Monwara Begum is living under a temporary shred along with her family after their home in Patia Pathar village was destroyed in floods. Four other families have also joined them to survive the floods. They all are living under the same sheet in inhumane conditions, with almost no food.

"For three days we were under the open sky, we then took some money on credit and bought this tarpaulin sheet. We are five families living under the same sheet, there is no privacy," said Monwara Begum.

Beauty Bordoloi's family is also living in a tarpaulin sheet after losing their home in Changjurai village. "Our harvest-ready paddy crop was destroyed in floods. The situation remains uncertain as it is very difficult to survive like this," she told NDTV.

"The situation here is extremely challenging, there is no source of safe drinking water, and we eat only once a day. We have only received some flattened rice over the last four days," said Ms Bordoloi's relative Sunanda Doloi.