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Phase-I of the Urban Flood Risk Management Programme covers seven cities with an outlay of Rs 3,075.65 crore.
Phase-II covers eleven more cities with an outlay of Rs 2,444.42 crore.
Both phases are financed through the National Disaster Mitigation Fund and implemented by the concerned State Governments.
A Multi-Sectoral Central Team has been constituted to study the rising frequency of cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh.
NDMA has prepared a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the programme and circulated it to participating cities.
A cloudburst is an extremely intense burst of rainfall over a very small area in a very short time — conventionally defined as around 100 millimetres of rain in an hour over roughly ten square kilometres. What makes it so destructive in the Himalaya is not the volume alone but the terrain: on a steep slope that water cannot soak in or spread out, so it concentrates into channels and arrives downstream as a flash flood carrying boulders and debris. The narrow footprint is also why cloudbursts are so hard to forecast — a weather station a few kilometres away may record nothing at all, so conventional observation networks can miss the event entirely even as it is happening.
Simple Analogy: Not rain falling across a district, but a bucket emptied over a single hillside.
Apex body for disaster management policy, plans and guidelines; reviews UFRMP progress and has prepared its Monitoring and Evaluation Framework
Weather forecasting and warnings, including for extreme rainfall events; provided inputs to the Multi-Sectoral Central Team
Flood forecasting and water resources assessment
Landslide susceptibility mapping and geological assessment
Research on building science and structural safety; part of the Multi-Sectoral Central Team
The parent law establishing the NDMA, State and District Disaster Management Authorities, and the national funds for response and mitigation
The fund from which UFRMP receives central financial assistance; distinct from the National Disaster Response Fund, which finances relief after a disaster rather than measures to prevent one
GS Paper 3 > Disaster Management; Environment and Climate Change
General Awareness > Environment and Government Programmes
General Awareness > Schemes
Disaster management is a standing GS Paper 3 theme and urban flooding recurs whenever a major city floods.
An extremely intense rainfall event, conventionally around 100 mm in an hour over a small area, made destructive in hills by steep terrain
Finances measures that reduce disaster risk before an event, as distinct from the Response Fund which finances relief afterwards
Accumulated rock and debris deposited by a glacier; its instability causes slope failures in high-altitude zones
Urban Flood Risk Management Programme — 18 cities across two phases, funded from the NDMF