The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved release of ₹944.80 crore to Tamil Nadu, to help the state in providing relief assistance to people affected by cyclone “Fengal’ on 30th November 2024 as both the installments of central share from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).

The MHA said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and guidance of Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah, “the Modi government stands shoulder to shoulder with the states affected by natural calamities in mitigating the hardship faced by the people.”

The Ministry further informed that additional financial assistance from NDRF, will be approved to the disaster affected states, as per the established procedure, based on the assessment reports of the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) on cyclonic storm ‘Fengal’ affected State of Tamil Nadu and UT of Puducherry.

It also highlighted that over ₹21,718.716 crore has already been released to 28 states during this year. This include ₹14878.40 crore from SDRF to 26 States, ₹4808.32 crore from NDRF to 18 States, ₹1385.45 crore from State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to 11 States and ₹646.546 crore from National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) to 07 States.

In addition to financial assistance, Central Government has also provided all logistic assistance, including deployment of requisite NDRF teams, Army teams and Air Force support to all the flood/ cyclone affected States, the MHA added.