The Tamil Nadu government has set up the State Disaster Mitigation Fund (SDMF) for undertaking projects that are exclusively for the purpose of disaster mitigation. This fund is different from the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF).
The SDMF has been constituted under Section 48 (1)(c) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, while the existing SRDF was constituted under Section 48 (1)(a) of the Act.