“…The state's frequent and devastating floods are primarily caused by the construction of river dams, unscientific construction of embankments, bridges, roads, and railways, large‐scale deforestation in upper catchment areas, the expansion of human settlements to river banks, sand bars, and islands, the blockage of inlets and outlets of wetlands, the degradation of numerous wetlands, dead channels, and so on (Deka, 2012). The majority of surface runoff flows into rivers and tributaries during the peak monsoons, enabling them to carry a large load of water and sediment, resulting in high stage‐discharge of all the rivers in the state (Bhuyan et al., 2022). The floods cause damage to houses, roads, and other infrastructure, destroy crops, trigger erosion, breach embankments, and thus affect and disrupt normalcy (Dikshit & Dikshit, 2014).…”