NEW DELHI: In view of heavy rainfall and displaced folks dropping their livelihoods, the Heart on Sunday launched Rs 1,951 crore for the state catastrophe aid funds of Maharashtra and Karnataka.House minister Amit Shah mentioned govt was absolutely dedicated to offering all doable help to states affected by floods, landslides and cloudburst. He has accredited advance launch of Rs 1,950.8 crore, as a second installment of the central share of SDRF, to the 2 states for 2025-26. Out of this, Rs 384 crore has been accredited for Karnataka and Rs 1,566 crore for Maharashtra to assist them present rapid aid help to folks affected by extraordinarily he-avy rainfall and floods throughout this yr’s south-west monsoon.This yr, the Heart has, to this point, launched Rs 13,603 crore to 27 states underneath SDRF and Rs 2,189 crore underneath Nationwide Catastrophe Reduction Fund to fifteen states. As well as, Rs 4,571 crore has been launched from State Catastrophe Mitigation Fund to 21 states and Rs 372 crore from Nationwide Catastrophe Mitigation Fund to 9 states.The Heart has additionally supplied logistics help, together with deployment of requisite Nationwide Catastrophe Response Pressure groups, Military groups and Air Pressure help to all states affected by flood, landslide and cloudburst. Throughout this yr’s monsoon, there was most deployment of 199 groups of NDRF in 30 states/UTs for rescue and aid operations, the house ministry mentioned.