Lok Sabha Question No. 4494 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-20
Subject: Cities Facing Double Heatwave and Extreme Rainfall
Ministry: EARTH SCIENCES
Asked by: Shri Asaduddin Owaisi

## MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4494 TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, 20 TH AUGUST, 2025

## CITIES FACING DOUBLE HEATWAVE AND EXTREME RAINFALL

## 4494.   SHRI ASADUDDIN OWAISI:

Will the Minister of EARTH SCIENCES be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  of  the  recent  report  titled  "Weathering  the  Storm: Managing Monsoons in a Warming Climate", which projects  that  cities  in  India  will face a two-fold rise in heatwave days and increase in extreme rainfall events by the year 2030 and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  the  Government  maintains  granular  city-level  and  district-level  data  on  the incidence of extreme heat and extreme rainfall during the last two decades and if so, the details thereof, State and year-wise since 2000;
- (c) whether any measures have been taken to establish Climate Risk Observatory (CRO) or similar  body  to  provide  real-time  risk  assessments  and  early  warning  systems  for climate hazards and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the steps taken/being taken to provide financial assistance or risk financing instruments to  urban  local  bodies  in  climate-vulnerable  regions  to  mitigate  the  socio-economic impacts of compound weather events such as concurrent heatwaves and heavy rainfall?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES (DR. JITENDRA SINGH)

- (a) Yes. The Government is aware of the recent report by IPE Global and Esri India, which finds that cities in India will face a two-fold rise in heatwave days and an increase in extreme rainfall events by 2030. It reveals that by 2030, climate change is expected to drive  a  43%  rise  in  the  intensity  of  extreme  rainfall  events  across  India,  making  the country hotter and wetter.
- (b) Yes. India Meteorological Department (IMD) continuously monitors extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall across various locations in India, including urban areas, using station and city-based meteorological data. Also, gridded rainfall (25 km resolution) and temperature data (50 km resolution) provided by the IMD are also utilised  to  track  these  extreme  events.  The  year-wise  number  of  heatwave  days  over different sub-divisions in the last 11 years is given in Annexure-1.
- (c) Under  the  Ministry of Earth Science, the India  Meteorological  Department,  in collaboration  with  the  Indian  Institute  of  Tropical  Meteorology  (IITM),  provides outlook for risk assessments and impact-based forecasts for early warning systems for climate hazards.
- (d) Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) implements the central sector schemes uniformly throughout the country; hence, the allocation of funds is not State-wise. Funds are not directly  released  to  the  State  Governments  from  the  MoES  to  implement  the  central sector schemes.

The  State  disaster  management  authorities  have  their  resources  available  through  the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to support  it.  If  there  is  a  request  from  the  States  for  financial  assistance,  the  Central Government  considers  it  in  accordance  with  the  relevant  guidelines  for  the  National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) and National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF).

State Government can use up to 10% of the annual fund allocation of the SDRF, subject to  the  fulfillment  of  certain  prescribed  conditions  and  norms,  to  provide  immediate relief  to  the  victims  of  natural  disasters  that  they  consider  to  be  'disasters'  within  the local  context  in  the  State  and  which  are  not  included  in  the  centrally  notified  list  of natural disasters.

Annexure-1

|                             | 2015   | 2016   | 2017   | 2018   | 2019   | 2020   | 2021   | 2022   | 2023   | 2024   | 2025   |
|-----------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| Assam& Meghalaya            | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 0      |
| NMMT                        | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |
| Shwb& Sikkim                | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 15     | 11     | 1      |
| Gangetic West Bengal        | 3      | 14     | 0      | 3      | 4      | 0      | 3      | 8      | 27     | 31     | 4      |
| Odisha                      | 14     | 20     | 12     | 4      | 2      | 0      | 3      | 11     | 24     | 37     | 7      |
| Jharkhand                   | 5      | 11     | 2      | 0      | 6      | 0      | 0      | 27     | 16     | 23     | 4      |
| Bihar                       | 4      | 6      | 0      | 3      | 12     | 0      | 0      | 13     | 29     | 30     | 4      |
| East U.P.                   | 12     | 2      | 9      | 4      | 10     | 2      | 0      | 33     | 11     | 33     | 8      |
| West U.P.                   | 10     | 3      | 11     | 6      | 4      | 2      | 2      | 28     | 5      | 32     | 5      |
| Uttarakhand                 | 2      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 5      | 0      | 10     | 0      |
| Har. Chd& Delhi             | 6      | 3      | 11     | 4      | 11     | 0      | 2      | 37     | 5      | 30     | 11     |
| Punjab                      | 2      | 2      | 7      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 22     | 3      | 27     | 7      |
| Himachal Pradesh            | 0      | 3      | 4      | 4      | 0      | 0      | 2      | 38     | 0      | 18     | 10     |
| Jammu & Kashmir & Ladakh    | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 2      | 0      | 0      | 19     | 0      | 11     | 13     |
| West Rajasthan              | 24     | 28     | 28     | 29     | 28     | 5      | 6      | 58     | 3      | 29     | 33     |
| East Rajasthan              | 10     | 11     | 14     | 5      | 25     | 0      | 4      | 28     | 0      | 23     | 21     |
| West Madhya Pradesh         | 19     | 18     | 19     | 8      | 19     | 4      | 2      | 42     | 4      | 24     | 7      |
| East Madhya Pradesh         | 15     | 20     | 19     | 9      | 30     | 0      | 0      | 34     | 13     | 26     | 10     |
| Gujarat Region              | 6      | 4      | 8      | 2      | 3      | 0      | 0      | 13     | 1      | 14     | 7      |
| Saurashtra & Kutch          | 12     | 3      | 8      | 2      | 9      | 6      | 12     | 25     | 4      | 16     | 15     |
| Konkan& Goa                 | 1      | 0      | 0      | 2      | 0      | 0      | 4      | 2      | 6      | 4      | 1      |
| Madhya Maharashtra          | 1      | 3      | 1      | 0      | 11     | 2      | 0      | 2      | 1      | 8      | 1      |
| Marathwada                  | 1      | 2      | 0      | 0      | 10     | 3      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 3      | 3      |
| Vidarbha                    | 15     | 12     | 22     | 14     | 54     | 0      | 2      | 18     | 11     | 11     | 8      |
| Chhattisgarh                | 9      | 2      | 1      | 3      | 7      | 2      | 0      | 3      | 12     | 13     | 1      |
| Coastal A. P.& Yanam        | 8      | 6      | 6      | 2      | 11     | 0      | 0      | 0      | 22     | 11     | 0      |
| Telangana                   | 8      | 6      | 3      | 0      | 14     | 2      | 0      | 0      | 14     | 12     | 1      |
|                             | 0      | 1      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 1      | 16     | 0      |
| Rayalaseema Tamil., Pudu. & | 0      | 0      | 7      | 0      | 4      | 0      | 2      | 0      | 1      | 13     | 0      |
| Karnataka                   |        | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      |        | 0      |        | 2      | 3      | 0      |
| Coastal                     | 0      |        |        |        |        | 0      |        | 0      |        |        |        |
| N. I. Karnataka             | 1      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 18     | 0      |
| S. I. Karnataka             | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 10     | 0      |
| Kerala &Mahe                | 0      | 9      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 0      | 6      | 0      |

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