Losses during 2005-2006 to 2009-2010
Human Lives
Sl
No.
Top 10 states
Cattle
No.
Top 10 states
Houses
No.
Top 10 states
Crop Area
No.
Top 10 states
Lakh
Ha
1
Himachal
379 Assam
11659 Gujarat
221664 Orissa
12.36
2
Uttarakhand
488 Himachal
13551 Rajasthan
269252 Gujarat
12.85
3
Maharashtra
749 Gujarat
19365 Orissa
475618 Rajasthan
17.36
4
Kerala
763 Bihar
20474 Assam
493228 Bihar
21.37
5
Andhra
770 Karnataka
23020 UttarPradesh
517198 Maharashtra
21.52
6
West Bengal
921 Arunachal
28409 Maharashtra
723325 UttarPradesh
22.87
7
Karnataka
990 Maharashtra
46586 Andhra
857027 Tamil nadu
23.34
8
Gujarat
1199 West Bengal
47526 Bihar
1089676 Andhra
29.21
9
Bihar
1684 Rajasthan
50894 Karnataka
1134080 West Bengal
31.38
Uttar Pradesh
2763 Andhra
2096665 Karnataka
32.46
Others
2340 Others
Total
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13046 Total
on relief and rescue operations as
well as in paying compensation for
the loss of lives and property.
Data on the expenditure incurred
for relief and rescue operations is
limited to Government sources;
sometimes for specific events.
Government has two sources to
support the households that have
lost people. These are the Prime
Minister’s and Chief Minister’s
Relief Fund. In addition, the
Calamity Relief Fund (CRF),
now called the State Disaster
Response Fund (SDRF) is used to
meet the expenses related to relief
and rescue operations. Some of
the repair costs are also met out
this source, which is basically an
agreed allocation where the state
has to contribute 25 percent and
the remaining would be given by
the Central; Government Some
states such as J&K and NE states
have a different break-up. Data
on the utilisation of SDRF is not a
YOJANA March 2012
481960 West Bengal
42668 Others
786112 Total
good measure to capture the nature
of problems in the states.
When the disaster affected
state Governments are not in a
position to meet the expenditure
with the SDRF allocation, they
submit a memorandum outlining
the damages incurred and seek
central government assistance
through the National Calamity
Conting e n c y F u n d ( N C C F ) ,
now called the National Disaster
Response Fund (NDRF). The
central Government would
release the funds based on the
recommendations of the Central
Team that would visit the affected
areas in the states. The release of
funds would reflect the extent of
dependence on external funds to
cope with the event. While this
need not reflect the reconstruction
requirements fully, in the absence
of any scientific assessment of
the damages and requirements
for reconstruction, the NDRF
funds released to various states
921314 Others
8799047 Total
34.43
259.15
reflect the vulnerability of the
states. NDRF data over the last six
years has been taken to rank the
top 10 states that have received
support after disasters of different
magnitude.
NDRF release over the last
six years shows that states such
a s K a r n a t a k a , Ta m i l N a d u ,
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra
Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West
Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Assam
accounted for 85.7 percent of the
funds released.
Institutional and legal
mechanisms
The National Disaster
Management Act (2005) was passed
in 2005. Apart from stipulating an
institutional mechanism to carry
out various disaster management
functions at the national, state,
districts and local levels, it mentions
the measures to be taken up by
various Government departments/
agencies/Ministries for disaster
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