{"id":66400,"date":"2025-10-04T14:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T09:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66400"},"modified":"2025-10-04T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T10:19:46","slug":"urban-flood-risk-management-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/urban-flood-risk-management-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Flood Risk Management Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Urban Flood Risk Management Programme<\/b> <b>Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a high-level committee headed by the Union Home Minister approved the Urban Flood Risk Management Programme (UFRMP) Phase-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Urban Flood Risk Management Programme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The programme will complement the states in <\/span><b>mitigating the risk of urban flooding in the cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through uniform structural and non-structural intervention measures.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cities Involved (11 cities)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212; Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kanpur, Patna, Raipur, Trivandrum, Vishakhapatnam, Indore and Lucknow<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Selection Criteria:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The 11 cities were selected on the basis of their status of being the most populous cities\/state capitals, primarily prone to floods, as well as consideration of other <\/span><b>physical, environmental, socio-economic and hydro-meteorological factors<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Funding:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The funding pattern will be on a cost-sharing basis between the Centre and the states according to the NDMF guidelines, i.e., 90 per cent from the Centre and 10 per cent from the states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Activities under Urban Flood Risk Management Programme<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structural measures of Interlinking of water bodies to Stormwater Management, Construction of flood protection wall, Erosion Control and Soil Stabilisation using Nature-Based Solutions (NBS),etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Non-structural measures such as Flood Early Warning System and Data Acquisition System and capacity building, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>Source:<\/b><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/govt-approves-rs-4645-cr-for-various-mitigation-projects-in-9-states\/articleshow\/124263448.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Flood Risk Management Programme will complement the states in mitigating the risk of urban flooding in the cities through uniform structural and non-structural intervention measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,3057],"class_list":{"0":"post-66400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-urban-flood-risk-management-programme","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}