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. Union Government is implementing a centrally sponsored scheme "Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP)" for providing central assistance to States for works related to flood control, anti-erosion, drainage development, anti-sea erosion, etc.

The State/UT-wise number of proposals received, approved and central assistance released under the Flood Management and Border Areas programme (FMBAP) during the last five years is given at Annexure.

As per report of Central Water Commission on “Assessment of Area Affected Due to Floods in India (2024)” based on satellite imageries data from 1986 to 2022, the total flood affected areas in India is assessed as 21.213 Mha and area protected through various steps taken for flood management by the Central/State Government is 20.538 Mha.State-wise/district-wise details of flood-affected areas in the country is available on website: https://cwc.gov.in/sites/default/files/assessment-area-affected-due-floods-india.pdf.

Maintenance of flood protection works of Kosi and Gandak projects in Nepal portion as well as flood protection/anti erosion works in the border areas with Bangladesh and Nepal in India portion is being funded under River Management Activities & Works related to Border Areas (RMBA) component of FMBAP.

The nature and extent of flood control, anti-erosion and border river management works undertaken under FMBAP is construction of embankment, sluices retaining/gabion walls, drainage channels, bank revetment/pitching along with launching apron, RCC porcupines, groynes/spurs etc.

The information was provided by THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR JAL SHAKTI SHRI RAJ BHUSHAN CHOUDHARY in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.

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ANNEXURE

State/UT-wise number of proposals received, approved and central assistance released under the Flood Management and Border Areas programme (FMBAP) during the last five years

Sl. No.	State	No. of Projects received under FMBAP during 2021-2026	Projects approved under FMBAP during 2021-2026		Central Assistance released in Rs. Crore
			Nos.	Approved Cost in Rs. Crore	Total CA released upto March, 2025 for projects included during 2021-26	Total CA released during last 5 years upto March, 2025
1	Arunachal Pradesh	5	2	170.52	22.5	22.50
2	Assam	5	1	125.21	0	296.15
3	Bihar	9	2	288.07	0	238.55
4	Himachal Pradesh	9	1	145.73	36.51	48.38
5	Jammu & Kashmir	1	1	1623.43	114.3	127.42
6	Manipur	3	1	460.43	290.01	290.01
7	Uttarakhand	15	15		12.5	15.27
8	West Bengal	3	1		7.78	51.93
	Total	50	24	2813.39	483.60	1090.21

 

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