Indian Government allocates Rs 23K Crore for Disaster Management

 

               With an aim to effectively manage disasters, the government has allocated huge money, which is Rs 23K Crore. An official said it’s for developing disaster management infrastructure at the state, district and panchayet level across the whole country.

                 The 13^th Finance Commission has allocated the amount for developing infrastructure across the country to help manage disasters in a better way. It is a indeed a great decision taken by our government. Some disasters hit us quite badly and they are unavoidable too, like the natural disasters like Tsunami, earth-quake, flood etc etc.

                  Out of the Rs 23K Crore, Rs 15K Crore will be given to the states and local bodies as direct grant and Rs 8K Crore will be performance grant.