Lok Sabha Question No. 1681 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-02-13
Subject: State Disaster Management
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Abdul Khaleque

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1681

TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2023

## State Disaster Management

## 1681.   SHRI ABDUL KHALEQUE:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  taken  cognizanceof  the  measures  undertaken  by  the Assam  State  Disaster  Management  Authority  in  enforcing  itsenvisaged  goal  of construction of a multipurposeflood shelter with an inmate capacity of 500 people/unit in the State under the Assam State Action Planfor Climate Change, if so, the details thereof; and
- (b) the details of funds utilized under the Schemein the district under SAPCC during the last three financial years?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  IN  THE  MINISTRY  OF  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST  AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI ASHWINI KUMAR CHOUBEY)

(a) and (b)  The Assam State Action Plan on Climate Change provides the strategy to deal with  floods.  One  of  the  envisaged  actions  includes  construction  of  multipurpose  flood shelterwith inmate capacity of 500 people / unit in Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Barpeta; Morigaon & Majuli in Jorhat. As per information from the State, some of the key achievements under disaster management sector in past five years are as follows:

- i. Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) has prepared the district wise flood Hazard maps for Assam State using satellite remote sensing data sets.
- ii. Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies
- iii. Initiative  of  building  up  its  GIS  database  to  develop  an  Emergency  Management Information System for Assam.
- iv. National  School  Safety  Programme  in  200  schools  in  Kamrup  and  200  schools  in Tinsukia District.
- v. Development of Flood Early Warning System (FLEWS) in all districts
- vi. Unique research project named 'Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change
- vii. Adaptation of Guwahati in the Context of Dynamic Growth' - associating with Earth Institute.
- viii. Research  project  named  'Water  Resource  and  Flood  &  Erosion  Risk  Mitigation Planning in Assam' - associating with Earth Institute.
- ix. ASDMA  engaged  with  North  East  Space  Application  centre  for  conducting  the Hazard  vulnerability  assessment  (HRVA)  for  Dhemaji  district  and  Guwahati  city, Dibrugarh & Silchar towns
- x. AapadaMitra  for  18  districts  (Kamrup  M,  Jorhat,  Cachar,  Karimganj,  Halakandi, Dima  Hasao,  Nagaon,  Morigaon,  Barpeta,  Nalbari, Baksa, Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Udalguri, Sivsagar Dibrugarh, Tinsukia, Darrang)
- xi. Formation of Circle Quick Response Team (CQRT)
- xii. Flood Reporting and Information Management System (FRIMS)
- xiii. Three Flood Shelters (Majuli, Lakhimpur & Barpeta) from State's own resources
- xiv. Installation  of  Sanitary  Vending  Machine  &  Disposal  machine  in  relief  camp  cum school as school act as relief camp to build gender friendly camps (Majuli, Morigaon, Goalpara) under process in Tinsukia & Barpeta district
- xv. Guidelines of Child Friendly Space CFS under National School Safety Program

The  State  Action  Plan  on  Climate  Change  (SAPCC)is  a  policy  document  that  envisions priorities  and  the  strategies  to  deal  with  impact  of  climate  change.  The  Government  is implementing  a  central  sector  scheme-  National  Adaptation  Fund  for  Climate  Changeto support  the  adaption  actions  of  the  State.  Under  the  scheme,  grant  assistance  of  Rs.  24.56 crore have been sanctioned to the State for taking the activities in the project mode to manage the  eco-system  of  Kaziranga  National  Park  by  creating  climate  resilient  livelihood  for vulnerable communities.Under the Scheme-Climate Change Action Programme, Government has also sanctioned grant assistance of Rs.20 lakh for revision of Assam SAPCCin2019-2020.

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