Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP)

• 08 Mar 2019

The Union Cabinet has approved the "Flood Management and Border Areas Programme (FMBAP)" for Flood Management Works in entire country and River Management Activities and works related to Border Areas (RMBA) for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20.

• The FMBAP Scheme will be implemented throughout the country for effective flood management, erosion control and anti-sea erosion.
• The proposal will benefit towns, villages, industrial establishments, communication links, agricultural fields, infrastructure etc. from floods and erosion in the country.
• The catchment area treatment works will help in reduction of sediment load into rivers.

Funding Pattern

• The funding pattern for general category States will be 50% (Centre) : 50% (State) and for projects of North Eastern States, Sikkim, J&K, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the funding pattern will to be 70% (Centre) : 30% (State).
• RMBA is funded as 100% grant-in-aid / central assistance, i.e. by the Central Government.

Salient features

• The Scheme "FMBAP" has been framed by merging the components of two continuing XII Plan schemes titled "Flood Management Programme (FMP)" and "River Management Activities and Works related to Border Areas (RMBA)".
• The aim of the Scheme is to assist the State Governments to provide reasonable degree of protection against floods in critical areas by adopting optimum combination of structural and non-structural measures and enhancing capabilities of State/Central Government officials in related fields.
• The works under the scheme will protect valuable land from erosion and flooding and help in maintaining peace along the border.
• The Scheme aims at completion of the on-going projects already approved under FMP. Further, the scheme also caters to Hydro-meteorological observations and Flood Forecasting on common rivers with the neighbouring countries.
• The Scheme also includes survey and investigations of water resources projects on the common rivers with neighbouring countries like Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project, Sapta Kosi-Sun Kosi Projects in Nepal which would benefit both countries.