Lok Sabha Question No. 3709 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-08-09
Subject: Flood in NER
Ministry: DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH EASTERN REGION
Asked by: MANOJ RAJORIA

## Government of India

## Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region

## LOK SABHA

Unstarred Question No. 3709

To be answered on

Wednesday, August 9, 2017/Shravana 18, 1939 (Saka)

## QUESTION

## Flood in NER

† 3709. DR. MANOJ RAJORIA:

Will  the  Minister  of  DEVELOPMENT  OF  NORTH  EASTERN  REGION  be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of arrangements made and assistance provided to tackle the flood in the North Eastern States, State-wise;
- (b) whether availability of medical facilities and hospitals has been ensured in the flood affected areas;
- (c) if so, the details thereof, State-wise and if not, the steps taken in this regard; and
- (d) the measures taken/proposed to be taken to have a permanent solution to the recurrent flood problem?

## ANSWER

## The Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region [Dr. Jitendra Singh]

- (a) The primary responsibility for disaster management, including ground arrangement  rests  with  the  States.  The  Government  of  India  extends  all  possible logistic and financial support to States to supplement their efforts to effectively meet the situation arising out of floods. In order to provide logistic support, the Government  of  India  keeps  sufficient  number  of  IAF  aircrafts/helicopters,  boats, specialist  teams  along  with  the  necessary  machines  and  equipment  of  Armed Forces, Central Armed Police Forces and personnel of National Disaster Response Force  located  at  various  strategic  locations  to  respond  to  any  kind  of  emergency situation, including flood.

As per information received from Ministry of Home Affairs, which handles the subject of disaster management, the State-wise allocation and releases of funds by State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF)/National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) in respect of North Eastern States during the year 2017-2018 is as under:-

| S. No.   | Name of the State   |   Allocation under SDRF (Rs. in crore) |   Centre's share of SDRF released (Rs. in crore) |
|----------|---------------------|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Arunachal Pradesh   |                                     57 |                                             51.3 |
| 2.       | Assam               |                                    507 |                                            456.3 |
| 3.       | Manipur             |                                     21 |                                             18.9 |
| 4.       | Meghalaya           |                                     27 |                                             24.3 |
| 5.       | Mizoram             |                                     19 |                                             17.1 |
| 6.       | Nagaland            |                                     11 |                                              9.9 |
| 7.       | Sikkim              |                                     34 |                                             30.6 |
| 8.       | Tripura             |                                     34 |                                             30.6 |
|          | Total               |                                    710 |                                            639   |

In  addition,  an  amount  of  Rs.25.01  crore  has  been  released  to  Nagaland under NDRF.

- (b) & (c) The concerned State Governments are taking necessary relief arrangement and preparedness measures, which inter alia includes taking necessary health and hygiene measures to prevent outbreak of any epidemic during flood/post flood calamity period. As per information received from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare,  the  financial  and  technical  support  to  the  States/UTs  is  provided  under National  Health  Mission  (NHRM)  as  per  requirement  posed by  States/UTs  in  their Practice Incentive Programme (PIP). Due to floods in Assam, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has provided an amount of Rs.100 crore to the Government of Assam under State PIP 2017-18 for procurement of essential drugs.
- (d) The subject of flood management being under the purview of the States, the schemes for flood control are formulated and implemented by concerned States as per  their  priority.  The  Union  Government  supplements  the  efforts  of  the  States  by providing technical guidance and also financial assistance for management of floods in  critical  areas.  The  Central  Government  also  supports  the  Plan  Scheme  'Flood Management  Programme',  which  is  implemented  by  the  State  Water  Resources Departments.  It  seeks  to  improve  the  existing  disaster  management  practices, mitigation and control to reduce the adverse impact of the floods and erosion control works.

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