Relief & Welfare
2026 Floods: What Happened
Depi and Dikhari in spate
Heavy rain in Arunachal Pradesh sent the Depi and Dikhari rivers into spate in Jonai circle. Seven houses were washed away at Galiguri (Galighat), the Jamuguri–Jonai PWD road breached, and more than 20 villages including Jamuguri, Ulunoni and Luitporiya went under water. (The Times of India; Pratidin Time)
Flash flood devastates Jonai
The Dikhari rose without warning and inundated Arun Chapori, Madhupur, Ujjalpur, Kemi and Jelum villages. At Koraibari Char in Telam, over 15 residents and nearly 100 cattle were stranded on the river island, prompting an SDRF rescue response. President Tilak Doley, who saw the 1996 Jonai floods as a Class XI student when a bridge over the Gai river was damaged, called the 2026 deluge “40 to 50 times more dangerous”. (India Today NE; The Sentinel, 3 July 2026)
Damage assessment begins
ASDMA reported 179 villages affected across Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Biswanath and Nalbari — 173 of them in Dhemaji alone — with the Brahmaputra above danger mark at Neamatighat. The Dhemaji inter-agency group completed a rapid needs assessment in Murkongselek block, flagging shelter, food, drinking water, hygiene kits and healthcare as priority needs. In Madhupur, the Dikhari carved a new channel that split the village in two, burying homes and farmland under mud and sand. (The Sentinel; Assam Times; NENow)
Waters recede, Dhemaji remains
Floods eased statewide until only Dhemaji remained affected — 1,367 people across Jonai and Dhemaji revenue circles. One relief camp and one distribution centre stayed open in Jonai, while the camp at Telam Tribal High School closed as inmates returned home. (ASDMA bulletin)
Second wave spreads statewide
Fresh rain pushed the toll upward: 37,032 people in 99 villages across six districts by 15 July (Lakhimpur worst-hit with 58 villages); 5.64 lakh people in 16 districts by 22 July; and 7,05,148 people in 12 districts with 62 deaths by 25 July. (The Sentinel; India TV; NDTV)
How TMPK Responded
Documented actions
- Memorandum to Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Jonai seeking central assistance and a permanent flood solution. (The Sentinel, 3 July 2026)
- Relief register logs rice, tarpaulin sheets, ORS packets, mosquito nets, disinfectants, candles and water-purification tablets distributed across Dhemaji and Lakhimpur.
- Demand for a joint Centre–Assam–Arunachal expert committee with hydrologists to study the Siang, Dibang and Subansiri systems.
- Naming of 15 affected river systems — Kemi, Leku, Rayang, Rajakhana, Nahar, Depi, Dikhari, Deka, Simen, Dimow, Ghagra-Jalakiasuti, Siji-Gainadi, Likabali-Silapathar-Tangani, Jiadhal and Subansiri — for scientific river management.
“We are not against development. We strongly support development activities that contribute to the progress and prosperity of the region. However, it is equally important that the environmental and downstream impacts of such large-scale projects are scientifically assessed and necessary protective measures are implemented.” — Tilak Doley, TMPK President, to The Sentinel, 3 July 2026.
Relief Camps Register
Majuli Island Camp
Tinsukia Emergency Camp
Lakhimpur Relief Centre
Jonai Flood Relief Camp
Dibrugarh Town Shelter
North Lakhimpur Relief Camp
Silapathar Relief Centre
Gogamukh Community Shelter
Dhemaji District Relief Camp
Jonai Flood Relief Camp
TMPK Central Relief Warehouse
Previous Season Camps (2)
A Legacy of Flood Service
2020: Health camps in the pandemic floods
When medical camps were barred during Covid-19, TMPK volunteers of Tinsukia and Sadiya units — Beni Doley, Minturaj Morang and Binod Dao — carried basic medicines house to house with ASHA and Anganwadi workers. On 4 August 2020, 409 patients were treated at Laika and Dhadhia islands; on 5–6 August, 798 more at Amarpur and Santipur of Sadiya. (Vivekananda Kendra report, Flood Relief Assam July 2020)
Laika-Dodiya rehabilitation struggle
Around 10,000–11,000 Misings displaced by flood and the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park lived for years in the Borguri camp near the Tinsukia DC office. TMPK central vice-president Minturaj Morang led the rehabilitation demand committee seeking resettlement at Jagun and Digboi, alongside solidarity relief by allied kebangs. (Arunachal Observer; Arunachal24, January 2021)
Why the Mising Community Bears the Brunt
The Mising people — 680,424 per the 2011 Census, the second-largest Scheduled Tribe of Assam — have traditionally inhabited the flood plains of the Brahmaputra and its north-bank tributaries: Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Majuli, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Sivasagar, Jorhat, Golaghat, Sonitpur and Biswanath. It is among the most flood-exposed geographies in the world.
Every monsoon destroys homes, submerges cropland, drowns livestock and displaces thousands — while riverbank erosion silently renders families landless, as at Madhupur in 2026 where the Dikhari abandoned its channel and split a village in two. Successive displacements, from the 1950 earthquake migration to Laika-Dodiya, have made relief and rehabilitation a permanent part of Mising life.
TMPK has therefore treated flood service as a core duty since 1971: emergency shelter and supplies in the monsoon, health camps in the aftermath, and year-round advocacy — from upstream project assessments to Sixth Schedule autonomy that would give the community control over its land and resources.
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