Flood management in North East region

Flood management in North East region

Subject: Environment

Section:

Context: State-wise details of damage caused by hydro-meteorological calamities like floods during 2022-23 in the states of North Eastern Region is assessed/reported by the Disaster Management Division.

Concept:

• Flood management comes under the purview of the State Governments, and the schemes for flood control, etc. are formulated and implemented by concerned States.
• The Union Government supplements the efforts of the States including the States of North Eastern Region (NER) by providing technical guidance, financial resources and assistance for management of floods in critical areas.

Central assistance

• The Government had implemented a plan called Flood Management Programme (FMP) for providing Central Assistance to States including NER states for works related to river management, flood control, erosion control, drainage development, etc. which subsequently continued as a component of “Flood Management and Border Areas Programme” (FMBAP) for the period from 2017-18 to 2020-21 , further extended up to September 2022.
• 139.91 crore has been released to the States of NER for anti-erosion/flood control activities and prevention of landslides during last 5 years

Central Water Commission (CWC):

• It is the nodal organization entrusted with the task of flood forecasting & early flood warnings in the country.
• CWC has developed a basin wise flood forecasting model based on rainfall-runoff. Also, the North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC), an institution established under the joint initiative of Department of Space and North Eastern Council (NEC) uses satellite data for developing early warning system on natural calamities like floods.

Disaster Management Division

• The State-wise details of damage caused by hydro-meteorological calamities like floods during 2022-23, in the states of North Eastern Region is assessed/reported by the Disaster Management Division (Ministry of Home Affairs)
• It has issued guidelines on Management of Floods Urban Flooding, Landslides and Snow Avalanches and issued a National Disaster Management Plan in which action to be taken on various calamities, including floods and landslide, has been outlined.