The initiatives will profit Assam, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.
To grasp Prime Minister Narendra Modi's imaginative and prescient of a disaster-resilient India, the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs (MHA) is offering all crucial assist to the states and Union Territories, an official assertion stated.
The committee, comprising Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the NITI Aayog vice-chairman as members, thought of the proposal for monetary help to states from the Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Fund (NDMF).
The committee accepted a plan for the restoration and rejuvenation of wetlands for Assam value Rs 692.05 crore, the assertion stated.
The implementation of this undertaking will improve wetland capability, create flood storage, enhance flood resilience, defend the aquatic atmosphere and assist financial progress via an improved fisheries infrastructure.Out of a complete accepted outlay of Rs 692.05 crore for the undertaking, the Central share will likely be Rs 519.04 crore (75 per cent) and the state share will likely be Rs 173.01 crore (25 per cent).It contains initiatives for mitigation actions in the direction of restoration and rejuvenation of 24 distinct wetlands in 9 districts of Assam unfold throughout the Brahmaputra river system, the assertion stated.
Via quite a lot of structural and different measures, the undertaking in Assam will improve the water retention capability of wetlands/Beels and assist mitigate the danger of flooding and erosion, the assertion stated.
The approval is consistent with the house minister's imaginative and prescient for the event of wetlands for conservation and flood mitigation in Assam.
The undertaking's long-term protection is aimed on the whole size of Brahmaputra inside Assam, and due to this fact this undertaking could be taken up as a pilot scheme to ascertain a flood-proof Brahmaputra valley.
The committee additionally accepted the City Flood Danger Administration Programme (UFRMP) Section-2 for 11 cities — Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kanpur, Patna, Raipur, Trivandrum, Vishakhapatnam, Indore and Lucknow — with a complete monetary outlay of Rs 2444.42 crore to be funded from the NDMF, the assertion stated.
The 11 cities have been chosen on the idea of their standing of being essentially the most populous cities/state capitals, primarily susceptible to floods, in addition to consideration of different bodily, environmental, socio-economic and hydro-meteorological elements, the assertion stated.
The programme will complement the states in mitigating the danger of city flooding within the cities via uniform structural and non-structural intervention measures.
The funding sample will likely be on cost-sharing foundation between the Centre and the states based on the NDMF pointers, i.e., 90 per cent from the Centre and 10 per cent from the states.
Moreover, out of the aforesaid 11 cities, the committee accepted a programme designed for flood mitigation initiatives in Guwahati with a complete outlay of Rs 200 crore, of which Rs 180 crore would be the Central share from the NDMF.
The actions concerned for the flood threat mitigation undertaking for Guwahati ranges from structural measures of interlinking of water our bodies to stormwater administration, development of flood safety wall, erosion management and soil stabilisation utilizing nature-based options (NBS), and many others., in addition to non-structural measures similar to flood early warning system, information acquisition system and capability constructing, and many others.
Earlier, the Central authorities accepted city flood threat administration programmes with an outlay of Rs 3075.65 crore for seven Metro cities — Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Pune.
The Centre had additionally accepted quite a lot of mitigation initiatives for mitigating the dangers of quite a lot of hazards within the areas of landslides (Rs 1,000 crore), glacial lake outburst flood (Rs 150 crore), forest hearth (Rs 818.92 crore), lightning (Rs 186.78 crore) and drought (Rs 2,022.16 crore).
The committee additionally accepted monetary help of Rs 1270.788 crore for Assam and Rs 260.56 crore for Kerala for restoration and reconstruction actions/plans within the aftermath of the flood/landslide incidents of 2022 and the Wayanad landslide of 2024, respectively, the assertion stated.
These restoration help programmes will assist Assam and Kerala perform restoration and reconstruction actions, triggered by the injury and destruction that occurred in the course of the floods/landslides in 2022 and the Wayanad landslide in 2024, respectively.
Earlier, the Centre accepted restoration and reconstruction plans for Uttarakhand for Rs 1,658.17 crore within the aftermath of the Joshimath land subsistence, for Sikkim value Rs 555.27 crore within the aftermath of the glacial lake outburst flood incident of 2023, and for Himachal Pradesh value Rs 2,006.40 crore within the aftermath of the floods, landslides, and cloudburst incidents of 2023.
The extra help is over and above the funds launched by the Centre to the states below the State Catastrophe Response Fund (SDRF), which have already been positioned on the disposal of the states.
Through the 2025-26 monetary 12 months, the Centre has launched Rs 13,578.80 crore to 27 states below SDRF and Rs 2,024.04 crore to 12 states below NDRF, the assertion stated.
As well as, the house minister has accepted advance launch of Rs 24.40 crore as second instalment of Central share of SDRF to Sikkim for the 12 months 2025-26.
as a Dependable and Trusted Information SupplyMoreover, the Centre has launched Rs 4,412.50 crore from the State Catastrophe Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to 21 states and Rs 372.09 crore from the Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Fund (NDMF) to 9 states, the assertion stated.
