TOPSHOTS Indian villager Chandrakant Zhanjare, who lost 13 members of his family, breaks down as he sits on an uprooted tree near the spot which was once his ancestral home, at Malin Village of Pune district in the western Indian state of Maharashtra on August 1, 2014. Rescue workers were losing hope August 1 of finding survivors amid the mud and debris from a major landslide in western India, where 150 people are feared to have been killed. AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE | Photo Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE more-in Mumbai: Amid the raging debate over the disparity in the Central government’s allocation for the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF), the State government has carried out a reassessment of its own risk profile. The exercise, which comes after requests from District Collectors, has changed its relief reimbursements to families who have suffered due to a natural disaster and adds more categories to the existing Maharashtra SDRF. Recently, Karnataka and other southern State governments had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting for a reassessment of SDRF disbursements under the 14th Finance Commission. The Karnataka government has claimed that States like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat have higher allocation despite being ‘less vulnerable’. Under the SDRF allocation, Maharashtra reportedly received ?8,195 crore, Gujarat ?3,894 crore and Tamil Nadu ?3,751 crore. As per the changes in the Maharashtra SDRF, the government will give ?2,500 to affected families for loss of clothing and utensils each. Under-Secretary Subhash Umaranikar relief will be provided only to families whose houses have been washed away, damaged or are severely inundated for more than two days due to a natural calamity. “Other change include relief to be given to owners of damaged or destroyed huts. The money will only be given to a structure falling within the stated definition of a ‘hut’, and duly approved by the government.”

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