The successive Finance commission (set-up under the Article 280 of the Constitution from time-to-time), determines the allocation of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for all States for each of the financial years for entire Award period. As against Rs. 61,220 crore recommended by the 14^th Finance Commission for the Award Period (i.e. 2015-16 to 2019-2020), the 15^th Finance Commission has allocated a total corpus of Rs. 1,28,122.40 crore in SDRF to all States for the Award Period (2021-22 to 2025-2026), of which Central Share is Rs. 98,080.80 crore and State Government share is Rs. 30,041.60 crore. In addition, an amount of Rs. 32,030.60 crore has been allocated under the State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) for the Award Period of 2021-22 to 2025-2026. Similarly, a total corpus of Rs. 54,770 crore has been allocated by the 15^th Finance Commission under National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) and Rs. 13,693 crore under National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) for the Award Period (2021-22 to 2025-26).

   This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Nityanand Rai in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.

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RK/AY/SM/AKS/RR/1994

(Release ID: 1944721)