Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Professor of water resource engineering, department of civil engineering, IIT Mumbai, Kapil Gupta has said that the HLC has recently approved Phase-II of the Urban Flood Risk Management Programme (UFRMP) for 11 cities.

The flood management programme with a total financial outlay of Rs 2,444.42 crore from the National Disaster Mitigation Fund (NDMF) will be implemented in Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Jaipur, Kanpur, Patna, Raipur, Thiruvananthapuram, Visakhapatnam, Indore, and Lucknow.

Gupta, who serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee under the High-Level Committee (HLC) chaired by the Union Home Minister was speaking at the 10th Mahesh Buch Memorial Lecture on the theme “Strategies for Urban Flood Mitigation in a Changing Climate” in the city o

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