- The Centre has announced to enhance its contribution to the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) by 15 percent. This will raise the government’s contribution in the fund from current 75 percent to 90 percent with effect from April 1, 2018.
- Thus the contribution of all states to the SDRF fund would be only 10 percent.
- The additional contribution by Central government in SDRF on this account will be Rs 1,690.35 crore for the year 2018-19 and Rs 1,774.67 crore for the financial year 2019-20
- The SDRF is a resource available to the states to meet the expenses of relief operations of immediate nature, for a range of specified disasters set up under the Disaster Management Act 2005.
