New Delhi, Oct 19 (UNI) Home Minister Amit Shah today approved advance release of Rs 1,950.80 crores, as second installment of Central share of SDRF, to Karnataka and Maharashtra, for the year 2025-26.
Out of the total amount, Rs 384.40 crore was approved for Karnataka and Rs 1,566.40 crore for Maharashtra to help these states provide immediate relief assistance to people affected by extremely heavy rainfall and floods during the south-west monsoon of this year, a Home Ministry statement said.
This year, the Centre has already released Rs 13,603.20 crore to 27 states under SDRF and Rs 2,189.28 crore under NDRF to 15 states.
In addition, Rs 4,571.30 crore have been released from the State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to 21 states and Rs 372.09 crore from National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) to nine states.
The Central Government has also provided all logistic assistance, including deployment of requisite NDRF teams, Army teams and Air Force support to all the flood, landslides, cloudburst affected states.
During this year’s monsoon, there was maximum deployment of 199 teams of NDRF in the 30 states and union Territories for rescue and relief operations.
