Incessant monsoon rainfall has caused widespread inundation and severe landslides across several districts of Mizoram, prompting the Lalduhoma-led state government to issue an urgent public safety advisory asking tourists from outside the state to postpone their visits. The state’s Tourism Department explicitly appealed to travelers to avoid visiting Mizoram until weather conditions improve, while requesting those who have already made travel bookings to reschedule their trips to prevent severe transit disruptions and personal safety risks. The adverse weather has triggered massive infrastructure damage and overflowing rivers, forcing the emergency evacuation of at least 100 families in Tlabung town and neighboring low-lying patches of south Mizoram’s Lunglei district after the Khawthlangtuipui river breached its banks near the Bangladesh border.
The relentless downpour has caused major breakdowns in the region’s transport network, leaving around 200 travelers completely stranded at Bualte village in Lunglei due to a massive landslide on National Highway 54, the critical arterial route connecting the Lawngtlai and Siaha districts. While the administration has deployed heavy earth-moving machinery to clear the debris, active and continuous rainfall has repeatedly triggered fresh mudslides, severely hindering long-term restoration work. Furthermore, police officials confirmed that the debris from a massive rockfall that occurred earlier at Ngaizel remains uncleared, continuing to block the crucial Aizawl-Thenzawl-Lunglei highway. As agricultural fields sit submerged under water from the swollen Mat river in Serchhip district—which recorded the state’s highest recent 24-hour rainfall at 34 mm—the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warns that the wet spell is likely to persist, making travel across the state’s fragile hill slopes highly volatile.
