The Centre on Monday approved Rs2,100 crore funds under the National Disaster Relief Fund for Karnataka and Gujarat, which recently faced drought and floods respectively. A high-level meeting for Central assistance to States affected by natural disasters was held here under the chairmanship of Home Minister Rajnath and attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya, Agriculture Minister Sanjeev Balyan and other officials.
“The Committee examined the proposals based on the report of the Central team that visited the States hit by natural disasters. It approved the assistance from the NDRF in respect of Karnataka to the tune of Rs1,540 crore and for Gujarat an amount of Rs562 crore regarding the losses caused by drought and flood respectively," a MHA statement said.