Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah has approved advance release of Rs 1,950.80 crore, as 2nd installment of the Central share of SDRF, to the state governments of Karnataka and Maharashtra, for the year 2025-26.
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Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah has approved advance release of Rs 1,950.80 crore, as 2nd installment of the Central share of SDRF, to the state governments of Karnataka and Maharashtra, for the year 2025-26.
Out of the total amount of Rs 1,950.80 crore, Rs 384.40 crore has been 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.
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“Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and guidance of Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah, the Central Government is fully committed to provide all possible assistance to states affected by flood, landslides and cloudburst,” according to a Home Ministry statement on Sunday.
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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 the National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) to 9 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 a maximum deployment of 199 teams of NDRF in the 30 states/UTs for rescue and relief operations.
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