Lok Sabha Question No. 2331 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-03
Subject: Flood Control Scheme
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Sumalatha Ambareesh, Reddeppa Nallakonda Gari, Margani Bharat, Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

## DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES, RIVER DEVELOPMENT & GANGA REJUVENATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2331

ANSWERED ON 03.08.2023

## FLOOD CONTROL SCHEME

## †2331. SHRIMATI SUMALATHA AMBAREESH

SHRI N. REDDEPPA

SHRI MAGUNTA SREENIVASULU REDDY

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a)  whether  the  Government  has  implemented  any schemes  for flood control  and  drainage  projects in flood-prone areas of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh;

(b) if so, the details thereof along with the outcome and benefits achieved therefrom;

(c) whether the Government is aware that existing mechanism for flood control has failed and floods are causing huge damage to properties and people;

(d) if so, whether the Government proposes to review the flood control system and plug the loopholes to safeguard the precious lives and property and if so, the details thereof; and

(e) the details of other steps taken to control flood and drainage in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh?

## ANSWER

THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI ( SHRI BISHWESWAR TUDU )

(a) & (b) Flood management falls within the purview of the States. Flood management and drainage projects are formulated and implemented by concerned State Governments from own resources as per their  priority.  The  Union  Government  supplements  the  efforts  of  the  States  by  providing  technical guidance  and  also  promotional  financial  assistance  for  management  of  floods  in  critical  areas.  Flood management  measures  are  broadly  categorized  as  structural  measures  and  non-structural  measures. Integrated  flood  approach  aims at  adopting judicious  mix of  structural and non-structural measures to provide a reasonable degree of protection against flood damages at economic cost.

To strengthen the structural measures of flood management, Union Government had implemented Flood Management Programme (FMP) during XI & XII Plans for providing central assistance to States for  works  related  to   flood  control,  anti-erosion,  drainage  development,  anti-sea  erosion,  etc.  which subsequently  continued  as  a  component  of  "Flood  Management  and  Border  Areas  Programme" (FMBAP) for the period from 2017-18 to 2020-21 and was further extended up to September 2022 with

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limited outlay. 427 completed projects under FMP component of FMBAP have given protection to an area of around 4.994 mha and protected a population of about 53.57 million.

No project was funded by Government of India in Andhra Pradesh due to non receipt of eligible proposal  from  the  State.  In  the  State  of  Karnataka,  3  projects  were  taken  up  during  under  FMP  and central assistance of Rs. 23.8 crore was provided to the State Government.

(c)  to  (e) Floods  are  natural  calamity  that  India  faces  almost  every  year,  in  varying  degrees  of magnitude.  The  frequent  occurrence  of  floods  can  be  attributed  to  various  factors,  including  wide variations in rainfall both in time and space with frequent departures from the normal pattern, inadequate carrying capacities of rivers, river bank erosion and silting of river beds, landslides, poor natural drainage in  flood  prone  areas,  glacial  lake outbursts,  etc. Providing  absolute protection to all flood  prone areas against all magnitude of floods is practically not possible. The damages due to floods can be reduced to a large extent by facilitating timely evacuation of the people and shifting of their movable property to safer grounds by having advance warning of incoming flood through  a flood forecasting system.

Central  Water  Commission  (CWC)  is  the  nodal  Organisation  entrusted  with  the  task  of  flood forecasting  &  early  flood  warnings  in  the  country.  Presently,  CWC  issues  flood  forecasts  for  338 forecasting  stations  (138  Inflow  Forecast  Stations  &  200  Level  Forecast  Stations)  which  includes  25 States and UTs. The network has been established in consultation with the State Governments and UTs. In  order  to  provide  more  lead  time  to  the  local  authorities  to  plan  evacuation  of  people  &  take  other remedial  measures,  CWC  has developed  basin  wise flood  forecasting  model  based  on  rainfall-runoff mathematical modeling for 5 days' advance advisory at its forecasting stations. CWC is providing flood forecasting  service  in  the  State  of  Andhra  Pradesh  at  20  locations  (10  Level  Forecast  and  10  Inflow Forecast) and in Karnataka at 15 locations (1 Level Forecast and 14 Inflow Forecast).

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