State Disaster Response Fund 2015-2020

State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) is constituted under the section 48 of (1) (a) of DM act 2005 is a primary fund available with State Government for responses to notified disaster. Central Government contribute 75% of SDRF allocation for general category States/UTs and 90% for special category States (North East State, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir). The annual contribution is released in two equal instalments as per the recommendation of the finance commission. SDRF shall be used only for meeting the expenditure for providing immediate relief to the victims.

Disaster(s) covered under SDRF: Cyclone, Drought, Earthquake, Floods, Tsunami, Hailstorm, Landslide, Avalanche, Cloud burst, Pest attack, Frost, Cold wave

Local Disaster

State Government may use up to 10% of the funds available under SDRF for providing immediate relief to the victims of the natural disaster that day considered to be “Disaster” within the local contacts in the State and which is not included in the notified list of disaster of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) subject to the condition that the State Government has listed the State specific natural disaster and notified clear and transparent norms and guidelines for such disaster with the approval of the State authority i.e. State Executive Committee (SEC).

Year - wise	Corpus of SDRF	5% of annual allocation of the SDRF for Capacity Building activities
2015-16	24.00 crore	1.20 crore
2016-17	25.00 crore	1.25 crore
2017-18	27.00 crore	1.35 crore
2018-19	28.00 crore	1.40 crore
2019-20	29.00 crore	1.45 crore

• Guidelines on Constitution and Administration of the State Disaster Response Fund and National Disaster Response Fund (503 kb)
• Items and Norms of assistance from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for the period 2015-2020 (99 kb)
• Revised list of items & norms of assistance from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF)/ National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) (593 kb)