Consider the following statements regarding the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) : I. The SDRF is constituted under Section 58(1)(a) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. II. The Central Government contributes 70% of the fund for general category states and 80% for special category states. III. States can use up to 10% of the fund for local natural disasters not included in the central notified list. Which of the above statements is/are correct ?
III only
Statement I is incorrect. The State Disaster Response Fund is constituted under Section 48(1)(a) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, not Section 58(1)(a). Section 48 is the provision that directs every State Government to establish a State Disaster Response Fund and a District Disaster Response Fund.
Statement II is incorrect. Following the Finance Commission's award, the Centre contributes 75% of the SDRF corpus for general category states and 90% for special category states (the North-Eastern and Himalayan states), with the state meeting the balance. The figures 70% and 80% do not match the actual sharing pattern.
Statement III is correct. A state may spend up to 10% of its annual SDRF allocation on providing immediate relief for local natural disasters that the state itself considers disasters in its own context, even though those calamities are not on the Ministry of Home Affairs' notified list of disasters.
Hence, only the statement about the 10% local-disaster window is correct, so the answer is III only.
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