Government has approved fire services projects worth Rs 725 cr for three states.
A high-level committee headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah approved three projects worth Rs 725.62 crore for the expansion and modernisation of fire services in Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal.
Rs 376.76 crore for West Bengal, Rs 201.10 crore for Odisha and Rs 147.76 crore for Chhattisgarh have been approved under the ‘Expansion and Modernisation of Fire Services’.
The government has allocated a total of Rs 5,000 crore under the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) for ‘Expansion and Modernisation of Fire Services’ in the states.
15 states with a total outlay of Rs 2,542.12 crore had already been approved.
Rs 14,878.40 crore has been allocated from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to 26 states.
Rs 4,637.66 crore from the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to 15 states, and Rs 1,385.45 crore from the State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) to 11 states.
