Lok Sabha Question No. 4136 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-19
Subject: Loss of Life and Wealth due to Flood
Ministry: JAL SHAKTI
Asked by: Shri Rakesh Rathor

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF JAL SHAKTI

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4136

ANSWERED ON 19.12.2024

## LOSS OF LIFE AND WEALTH DUE TO FLOOD

## †4136. SHRI RAKESH RATHOR

Will the Minister of JAL SHAKTI be pleased to state:

(a) whether the Government has made any assessment of the losses of life and wealth due to flood every year and if so, the details thereof;

(b)  whether the Government proposes to formulate any scheme to deal with the havoc caused by flood in many regions of the country and if so, the details thereof;

(c) whether Uttar Pradesh is facing the havoc of flood and if so, the details thereof along with the response of the Government thereto;

(d) whether Biswan, Laharpur, Mahamudabad, Seuta teshils of Sitapur district are facing the havoc of floods over the years and if so, the details thereof; and

(e) whether the Government is contemplating a permanent solution to check the havoc of floods, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI

## ( SHRI RAJ BHUSHAN CHOUDHARY )

(a) Central Water Commission (CWC) has published 'Report on Flood Damage Statistics (1953-2022)' in 2024.  The  report  indicating  year-wise  and  state-wise  statistics  of  flood  damages  can  be  accessed  at https://cwc.gov.in/sites/default/files/report-flood-damage-statistics.pdf.

(b) Flood  management  and  anti-erosion  schemes  are  formulated  and  implemented  by  concerned  State Governments 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. Govt.of India had implemented Flood Management Programme (FMP) during XI & XII Plan for providing Central  Assistance  to  States  for  works  related  to  river  management,  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  further  extended  for  a period of 5 years from 2021-22 to 2025-26.

Further, CWC issues flood forecasts as a non-structural measure of flood management, to concerned State Governments at identified locations established in consultation with the State Governments and UTs.

(c) to (e) The country including Uttar Pradesh faces flood in varying degree every year. In Sitapur district, flood situation arises mainly from Sharda and Ghaghra rivers. Due to rainfall in upper catchment in Nepal, Uttarakhand  and  Uttar  Pradesh,  the  water  level  of  these  rivers  increases  causing  flooding  in  the  villages situated  on  the  banks.  In  the  monsoon  of  the  year  2024,  the  maximum  discharge  of  4,19,272  cusecs  in Ghaghra River on 13.09.2024 passed from Banbasa Barrage in Uttarakhand causing floods in the villages on the banks of the river in Tehsil Laharpur, Biswan and Mahmudabad of Sitapur district.

Government  of  Uttar  Pradesh  has  informed  that  to  protect  against  the  floods,  a  total  of  523 embankments  have  been  built  on  various  rivers,  whose  total  length  is  3869  km.  In  Sitapur  district,  an embankment has been built on the right bank of Ghaghra river from Chahalari Ghat to Ganeshpur, the length of which is 54.6.00 km.

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