The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its report on the implementation of flood control and management schemes of the Ministry of Water Resources said that Emergency Disaster Action Plan is ready for only 349 dams out of 4,862 big dams built in India.

"The emergency action plan or disaster management plan is ready for only 349 dams out of the 4,862 large dams in the country, which means that only seven percent of major dams will be completed by March, 2016," the CAG report said in the Parliament on Friday said. Emergency Action Plan is ready for this. Mock drill was done on one dam only by March 2016.

The CAG has also disclosed that only 17 states or Union Territories selected for audit, only Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu investigated the dams before monsoon and after the monsoon, whereas only three states have partially examined.

CAG report on the protection of the dams has been said that in 2010 itself the initiative to bring the safety of the protection law, but no work has been done till August 2016.

According to the report of the CAG, the program has not been prepared for the repair of the dams and adequate funds have not been provided for structural / repair works.

The CAG report says, "We found that some major flaws and incompletenances were found during the security review by the Expert Committee in five major dams, of which two belonged to Bihar, two from Uttar Pradesh and one in West Bengal, but therapeutic steps were not taken due to non-availability of funds.''

India is a threat to flood, where 456.4 lakh hectares of the geographical area of 32.9 crore hectares are in the danger zone of flood.

The CAG has said that on an average 75.5 lakh hectares of area is affected by floods, on an average, 1,560 people die due to floods every year and due to the destruction of crops, damaged houses and loss of public facilities, average loss of 1,805 crore of rupees.

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