Landslides and flood have left a trail of destruction in Dima Hasao, a picturesque tourist hotspot in Assam, prompting a multi-agency effort to salvage the state’s only hill station Haflong and its surrounding townships in the district, officials said.

Officials, however, are uncertain when Dima Hasao will regain its lost sheen, considering the enormity of the devastation. While snapped road links are likely to be restored within the next few weeks, train movement connecting Dima Hasao, Barak Valley, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur with the rest of the country is expected to resume from July, they said.

“The restoration work is underway in full swing. We have set a target to complete the task by June 30 and plan to restart train services from July 1,” Northeast Frontier Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Sabyasachi De said. An official release issued by the NF Railway on Saturday said several trains have been cancelled till the first week of July, due to water-logging and landslides at numerous places.

While landslides were reported at 58 locations along the railway alignment, the two places of devastation that grabbed headlines were the mud-filled New Haflong railway station, where trains were derailed and submerged, and a portion of track suspended in the air with earth beneath washed away. The road network to Dima Hasao was also cut off, as streets filled with mud, stones and slash became a common sight. Though some stretches have been partially reopened and tunnels cleaned up, a senior official of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said complete restoration will take more than a week.