Guwahati, Aug. 13 -- A delegation led by Pranjit Das, Chairman of the Relief & Rehabilitation Department of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC), met with Governor Lakshman Acharya to demand that the state's recurrent and severe flood and river erosion crisis be urgently declared a "national problem".

The delegation submitted an urgent multi-point memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Union Jal Shakti Minister, and the Union Finance Minister through the Governor on Wednesday.

According to the memorandum, the people of Assam have been suffering irreparable losses year after year due to floods and severe riverbank erosion for decades.

Approximately 40% of the state's total land ar...