Lok Sabha Question No. 2955 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-11
Subject: Survey under Flood Prone Area Programme
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Badruddin Ajmal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2955 FOR ANSWER ON 11/07/2019

## 'Survey under Flood Prone Area Programme'

2955. SHRI M. BADRUDDIN AJMAL

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI  be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government proposes to conduct any  survey  under  the  Flood Prone Area Programme (FPAP) across the country;
- (b) if  so,  the  details  thereof indicating  the  districts identified  as  flood-prone  in  the country including Assam, State/UT-wise; and
- (c) the steps taken by the Government for development of such areas?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI (SHRI  RATTAN LAL  KATARIA )

(a) & (b): The Rashtriya Barh Ayog (RBA) estimated the total area liable to floods in the  country  as  40 Million Hectare (mha). The extent of maximum area affected by floods  in  any year during  1953-2010 as  per the Working  Group Report on  Flood Management and Region Specific Issues for XII Plan is 49.815 mha, the State-wise break up of which is given at Annexure-I . In  2006,  a  Committee,  headed  by  Chairman,  Ganga  Flood  Control  Commission (GFCC), Patna, identified 39 districts in India as flood prone, out of which 9 districts were identified as flood prone in Assam. The name of the districts identified as floodprone in the country by the said Committee is at Annexure-II . For scientific assessment of flood prone areas in India, Ministry has constituted an

Expert Committee under Chairman, Central Water Commission (CWC). The Expert Committee has constituted Regional Committees for each States/UTs with Principal Secretaries  of  Water  Resources  Department  as  its  Chairman  and Regional  Chief

Engineer/Director  of  CWC  as  its Member-Secretary.  The mandate of  the  Regional Committees is  to identify,  demarcate  and  classify  the  flood prone  areas  in  their respective State/UT based on the methodology, classification and criteria finalized by the Expert Committee. (c)  : The  subject  of  flood  management  including  erosion  control being within  the purview of the States, the flood management & anti-erosion schemes are planned, investigated and implemented by the State Governments with their own resources as per priority  within  the State. The Union Government supplements the efforts of the States  by way  of technical  guidance  and  promotional  financial  assistance to  the States for flood management in critical areas. Government  of  India  launched  a  Flood  Management  Programme  (FMP)  during  XI Plan for providing central assistance to the State Governments for taking up works related to river management, flood control, anti-erosion, drainage development, flood proofing  works,  restoration  of  damaged  flood management  works  and  anti-sea erosion works which was continued. A total of 522 projects costing Rs.13238.36 crore were approved and included under FMP. Since start of XI Plan, total Central Assistance released to States under FMP up till March, 2019 is Rs.5863.95 crore. Flood  Management  Programme  (FMP)  and  River  Management  Activities  & Works related to Border Areas (RMBA) schemes continuing during XII Five Year Plan, have been merged  into a single scheme  "Flood  Management  and  Border  Areas Programme" (FMBAP) for the three year period from 2017-18 to 2019-20. Flood  forecasting  and  warning  system  has  been  planned  as  a  non-structural measure, as  advance  knowledge  of  incoming  floods  plays  an  important  role  in reducing flood damage as also better planning of rescue/ relief operations. The inflow forecast  helps  in  optimum  regulation  of  reservoirs. Central  Water  Commission  at present has a network comprising of 325 flood forecast stations, of which 197 are level forecast and 128 are inflow forecast stations on major dams/barrages. It covers all  major  river basins in  the  country covering 23 States  and  one  Union  TerritoryDaman & Diu and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2955 TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 11.07.2019 REGARDING 'SURVEY UNDER FLOOD PRONE AREA PROGRAMME'.

State- wise Maximum Area Affected by Floods in any year during 1953 -2010

| S. No.   | State                | Max. Area affected (million   |
|----------|----------------------|-------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh       | ( mha) 9.040                  |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh    | 0.207                         |
| 3        | Assam                | 3.820                         |
| 4        | Bihar                | 4.986                         |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh         | 0.089                         |
| 6        | Delhi                | 0.458                         |
| 7        | Goa                  | 0.000                         |
| 8        | Gujarat              | 2.050                         |
| 9        | Haryana              | 1.000                         |
| 10       | Himachal Pradesh     | 2.870                         |
| 11       | Jammu & Kashmir      | 0.514                         |
| 12       | Jharkhand            | 0.000                         |
| 13       | Karnataka            | 0.900                         |
| 14       | Kerala               | 1.470                         |
| 15       | Madhya Pradesh       | 0.377                         |
| 16       | Maharashtra          | 0.391                         |
| 17       | Manipur              | 0.080                         |
| 18       | Meghalaya            | 0.095                         |
| 19       | Mizoram              | 0.541                         |
| 20       | Nagaland             | 0.009                         |
| 21       | Orissa               | 1.400                         |
| 22       | Punjab               | 2.790                         |
| 23       | Rajasthan            | 3.260                         |
| 24       | Sikkim               | 1.170                         |
| 25       | Tamil Nadu           | 1.466                         |
| 26       | Tripura              | 0.330                         |
| 27       | U.P.                 | 7.340                         |
| 28       | Uttarakhand          | 0.002                         |
| 29       | West Bengal          | 3.080                         |
| 30       | Andaman&Nicobar      | 0.030                         |
| 31       | Chandigarh           | -                             |
| 32       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | -                             |
| 33       | Daman & Diu          | -                             |
| 34       | Lakshadweep          | -                             |
| 35       | Puducherry           | 0.050                         |
| Total    | Total                | 49.815                        |

## Annexure-II

ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) & (b) OF UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2955 TO BE ANSWERED IN LOK SABHA ON 11.07.2019 REGARDING 'SURVEY UNDER FLOOD PRONE AREA PROGRAMME'.

Name of the Districts identified as flood-prone in the country by the Committee headed by Chairman, GFCC, Patna

|   S.No. | Name of District   |   Percentage area flooded | State/UT      |
|---------|--------------------|---------------------------|---------------|
|       1 | Dhubri             |                     51.47 | Assam         |
|       2 | Sheohar            |                     45.4  | Bihar         |
|       3 | Sitamarhi          |                     39.63 | Bihar         |
|       4 | Darbhanga          |                     38.69 | Bihar         |
|       5 | Jajpur             |                     37.32 | Orissa        |
|       6 | Gopalganj          |                     36.49 | Bihar         |
|       7 | Saharsha           |                     35.38 | Bihar         |
|       8 | Lakhimpur          |                     35.04 | Assam         |
|       9 | Jagatsinghpur      |                     31.7  | Orissa        |
|      10 | Muzaffarpur        |                     30.61 | Bihar         |
|      11 | Kendrapara         |                     28.86 | Orissa        |
|      12 | Morigaon           |                     27.69 | Assam         |
|      13 | Dhemaji            |                     26.77 | Assam         |
|      14 | Barpeta            |                     25.04 | Assam         |
|      15 | Bhadrak            |                     23.83 | Orissa        |
|      16 | Jorhat             |                     23.76 | Assam         |
|      17 | Supaul             |                     22.61 | Bihar         |
|      18 | Puri               |                     22.01 | Orissa        |
|      19 | Mirzapur           |                     20.77 | Uttar Pradesh |
|      20 | Sidharthnagar      |                     20.72 | Uttar Pradesh |
|      21 | Madhubani          |                     20.53 | Bihar         |
|      22 | Murshidabad        |                     19.92 | West Bengal   |
|      23 | Katihar            |                     19.88 | Bihar         |
|      24 | Gorakhpur          |                     19.71 | Uttar Pradesh |
|      25 | Samastipur         |                     19.66 | Bihar         |
|      26 | Cuttak             |                     19.55 | Orissa        |
|      27 | Basti              |                     17.97 | Uttar Pradesh |
|      28 | Bhagalpur          |                     17.77 | Bihar         |
|      29 | Goalpara           |                     17.71 | Assam         |
|      30 | Nadia              |                     17.6  | West Bengal   |
|      31 | Vaishali           |                     17.53 | Bihar         |
|      32 | Sibsagar           |                     17.22 | Assam         |
|      33 | East Champaran     |                     16.94 | Bihar         |
|      34 | Farukhbad          |                     16.5  | Uttar Pradesh |
|      35 | Purnea             |                     15.69 | Bihar         |
|      36 | Bairbum            |                     15.55 | West Bengal   |
|      37 | Araria             |                     15.51 | Bihar         |
|      38 | Ballia             |                     15.23 | Uttar Pradesh |
|      39 | Nalbari            |                     15.13 | Assam         |