India, July 31 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Flood management and irrigarion 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 promotional financial assistance.
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 during 2021-22 to 2025-26.
Total 522 flood management projects covering 25 States/UTs with an estimated cost of Rs. 13238.37 Crore were included during XI and XII plan and 7 new flood management projects of six states with an estimated cost of Rs. 2573.80 crore have been included under FMP component of FMBAP during 2021-26. Total central assistance amounting to Rs. 7260.50 crore and Rs 1477.15 crore has been released under FMP and River Management and Border Area (RMBA) component respectively to various states upto March 2025. Details of State wise fund released under FMBAP scheme during last three years is placed below.
Total Budget earmarked and fund utilised under FMBAP scheme during last three years is given below:
Table Omitted (The document can be viewed at https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2150753 )
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