"Assam Floods: Baby Born Inside Tea Factory", 21 July 2026

Bamonpookrie Tea Estate...is among the worst-hit as floods inundate workers' quarters, hospitals and schools.

The devastating floods sweeping Upper Assam region have exposed the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the state's tea gardens, with a pregnant worker delivering her baby inside a tea factory after rising floodwaters cut off access to a hospital.

...widespread flooding has submerged workers' colonies and crippled transport links following incessant rainfall and a cloudburst in neighbouring Nagaland...

Another expectant mother, who was on the verge of delivery, also required urgent medical attention...

Floodwaters surround a cluster of homes, leaving them isolated on a small patch of higher ground in a flood-affected village at Sildubi, in Morigaon...

Among the affected plantations, Bamonpookrie Tea Estate has suffered the worst devastation.

TAI said nearly all tea estates in the region remain submerged, with workers' residential quarters, estate hospitals, schools, roads and other vital infrastructure under water.

Thousands of tea workers and their family members have been forced to abandon their homes and take shelter in factory buildings, managers' bungalows and other elevated structures within the estates...