Uttarakhand seeks ₹15,000 crore from Centre in its first PDNA report

The Uttarakhand government has asked the Centre for more than ₹15,000 crore to compensate the losses incurred during 2025 natural disasters in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) prepared recently. The first PDNA report prepared by any state government in the country was submitted to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) by Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority (USDMA).

The USDMA report presented to the NDMA has assessed damages caused by the natural disasters occurring in the state in the year 2025. It provided a detailed, sector-wise assessment of losses, damages, rehabilitation and reconstruction needs across the social, infrastructure, productive and cross-cutting sectors in the state.

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The USDMA’s assessment report stated that a total economic impact of ₹15,103.5 crore was witnessed in different sectors owing to natural disasters in 2025. This included direct property damages worth ₹3,792.38 crore and complete losses of ₹312.19 crore.

Besides, recovery and reconstruction impact with Build Back Better approach has been to the tune of ₹10,998.95 crore.

Talking about sectoral need assessments and findings, the USDMA report stated that the social sector recorded a net economic impact of ₹4,966.8 crore of which housing, education and health were the most affected aspects in 2025 natural disasters. The health sector alone had a financial impact of ₹2,579.4 crore while housing accounted for ₹2,005.4 crore.
On the other hand, the economic impact owing to infrastructural loss was estimated to be nearly ₹6,225.69 crore. Water supply was hit with a loss of ₹4,048.88 crore, roads recorded a lost impact of ₹1,963.29 crore and the power sector ₹213.52 crore.

As for the production sectors, agriculture, horticulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, tourism and forestry witnessed an impact worth ₹893.94 crore. However, tourism was the most affected in this category recording a loss of ₹744.94 crore.
Under the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), the PDNA report expressed a requirement of nearly ₹3,017 crore for reconstruction and strengthening of infrastructure to mitigate the impact of future disasters.

“PDNA report has been prepared keeping in view the state’s geographical and topographical sensitivities, hill conditions and impacts of climate change. The objective of the report is not just to assess damage, but to present a roadmap for planned rehabilitation and reconstruction to build a more resilient, safe, and disaster-proof Uttarakhand” said secretary state disaster management department, Vinod Suman speaking about the report.

Suman said that necessary financial assistance will be sought from the Central government based on this report. It will help the state in speedy restoration of the disaster affected areas, safeguarding livelihoods and strengthening of infrastructure in tune with the principle of ‘Build Back Better’.