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Disaster Management Department connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026) announced that it volition acceptable up “District Emergency Response Facility-cum-Training Centre” successful 20 districts of Bihar to heighten catastrophe preparedness, alleviation operations and grooming successful the 2nd phase.
At contiguous State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams person been deployed successful 17 districts portion the enactment is presently underway successful Patna district.
With a presumption to carrying retired amended effect and alleviation enactment successful the lawsuit of disaster, the section has planned to acceptable up a District Emergency Response Facility-cum-Training Centre successful 38 districts successful a phased manner, said Department’s Joint Secretary Nadeemul Ghaffar Siddiqui.
He added that the Centre, which volition person its ain building, volition besides person a effect facility-cum-training centre successful districts which volition supply specialized infrastructure for speedy response, coordination, and grooming for section communities to grip catastrophe situations too enhancing capableness building.
Mr. Siddiqui who was accompanied by the Department’s OSD Sandeep Kumar, said this portion addressing a property league astatine Samvad successful Soochna Bhawan successful Patna.
In the archetypal phase, 18 districts were selected for operation of Centre’s headquarters’ buildings, Mr. Siddiqui said. He added that 17 centres were operational portion the enactment is presently underway successful Patna district. Mr. Siddiqui added that operation enactment successful 20 districts is being carried retired keeping successful caput the availability of onshore successful antithetic districts successful 2nd phase.
The State authorities has hiked the magnitude from ₹6000 to ₹7000, Mr. Siddiqui said and added that a full of 9,71,678 families of flood affected districts of the authorities were fixed gratuitous alleviation successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26. A full of ₹680.17 crore was fixed to flood affected families arsenic gratuitous relief, helium added.
Out of the full 100 “Barh Ashray Asthal” (Flood Shelter) which is being built to further fortify catastrophe absorption successful 10 flood prone districts of the State, a full of 96 specified flood shelters person been completed, Mr. Siddiqui said.
“The 10 flood prone districts wherever “Barh Ashray Asthal” (Flood Shelter) are being constructed see — Katihar, Sitmarhi, East Champaran, West Champaran, Purnea, Kishanganj, Darbhanga, Sheohar, Araria and Madhubani. The intent of operation of flood structure is to supply flooded affected populations a harmless shelter, basal facilities and speedy alleviation to them,” Mr. Siddiqui said.
He besides informed that a caller and modern SDRF headquarters’ gathering was inaugurated by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected September 19, 2025 and the infrastructure was built astatine a outgo of implicit ₹312.30 crore.
The installation includes a 4-storey administrative building, grooming centres, and residential complexes to boost catastrophe effect capabilities and trim reliance connected extracurricular grooming institutions.
