Pictures: India under water as monsoon hits

While Monsoon season is crucial for farmers across the country of India, , it also poses a major safety and health hazard, often causing landslides and water-born diseases. All across India, monsoon season has hit with a vengeance.

Villagers on a makeshift banana raft after heavy monsoon rains flooded Burhaburhi village, east of Gauhati, India, Sunday, July 24, 2016. Monsoon season in India begins in June and ends in October. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath)

In northern Assam state, more than a million people have been displaced by rivers that have burst their banks. Children in the town of Pauri are having to risk their lives, just to get to get to school.

There is no bridge across then river and a rope trolley is the only means of transportation to the other side.

Indian commuters wade through waterlogged streets in Siliguri on July 21, 2016. Continuous rainfall in the past 48 hours has caused flooding with several landslides in the nearby hills of Siliguri and adjoining areas of North Bengal. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP/Getty Images)

In the capital, New Delhi, monsoon season is causing major traffic jam too. Flooded roads and poor drainage have brought traffic to a standstill in many places.

This year's rainfall has been particularly heavy with residents complaining that the government response had been inadequate.

And there may be worse to come as meteorologists say more heavy rain is forecast.


According to weather.com, the monsoon has displaced about 1.2 million people.