{"id":85705,"date":"2020-03-16T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:24:15","slug":"explained-what-is-a-notified-disaster-and-how-is-the-sdrf-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-a-notified-disaster-and-how-is-the-sdrf-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is a notified disaster and how is the SDRF used"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to treat COVID-19 as a notified disaster for the purpose of providing assistance under the State Disaster Response Fund(SDRF).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Disaster:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Disaster is an extreme disruption of the functioning of a society that causes widespread human, material, or environmental losses that exceed the ability of the affected society to cope with its own resources.<\/li><li>According to a High Power Committee on Disaster Management,1999 it identified 31 disasters organised into five major sub-groups namely a) water and climate related disasters b) geological related disasters c) chemical, industrial and nuclear related disasters and d) biological related disasters which includes biological disasters and epidemics.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About SDRF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The State Disaster Response Fund(SDRF) has been constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005 and is the primary fund available with state governments for responses to notified disasters.<\/li><li>The Central government contributes 75% towards the SDRF allocation for general category states and UTs, and over 90% for special category states\/UTs which includes northeastern states, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.<\/li><li>The disasters covered under the SDRF include cyclones, droughts, tsunamis, hailstorms, landslides, avalanches and pest attacks among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Ministry of Home Affairs has decided to treat COVID-19 as a notified disaster for the purpose of providing assistance under the State Disaster Response Fund(SDRF). Facts: About Disaster: Disaster is an extreme disruption of the functioning of a society that causes widespread human, material, or environmental losses that exceed the ability of the affected&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-a-notified-disaster-and-how-is-the-sdrf-used\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is a notified disaster and how is the SDRF used<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3115,3116],"class_list":["post-85705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-disaster","tag-sdrf","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}