Flood relief: Centre approves release of Rs. 20 cr for Nagaland

Union Home Minister and Cooperation, Amit Shah, has approved advance release of Rs.20 crore, as second instalment of Central share of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to Nagaland, for the year 2025-26.
According to a Ministry of Home Affairs statement, the release of fund was approved to help the state provide immediate relief assistance to people affected by extremely heavy rainfall and flash floods, landslides during the south-west monsoon of this year.
The ministry stated that the Centre under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and guidance of Union Home Minister Amit Shah was standing shoulder to shoulder with the State Governments during natural calamities and disasters and providing them all necessary support.
During financial year 2025-26, Central Government has already released Rs.15,554 crore to 27 States under SDRF and Rs.2,267.44 crore to 15 States under NDRF.
In addition, Rs. 4,571.30 crore have been released from the State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to 21 States and Rs. 372.09 crore from National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) to nine States.
Central Government has also provided all logistic assistance, including deployment of requisite NDRF teams, Army teams and Air Force support to all the flood, landslides, cloudburst affected States. During this year’s monsoon, there was maximum deployment of 199 teams of NDRF in the 30 States/UTs for rescue and relief operations.