India has garnered international support for its Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure, CDRI. Thirty-One Nations and Eight International organisations including United Nations agencies, multilateral banks, and private sector partners have supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's CDRI proposal at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019.<br />''<br />''In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai said that the Centre has approved 480 crore rupees for a corpus to fund technical assistance and research projects on an ongoing basis over a period of five years ending in 2023-24.<br />''<br />''He informed that CDRI has also received financial commitments and support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Netherlands, and European Union as well as technical support from the United States of America, France, and Canada.<br />''<br />''He said, CDRI has launched strategic initiatives, sector resilience programmes, and knowledge and learning initiatives to support infrastructure resilience globally.<br />''<br />''Mr. Rai said that Infrastructure for the Resilient Island States, IRIS, was launched at the World Leader Summit of the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties, COP-26 in Glasgow last year, is a dedicated strategic initiative of CDRI to support Small Island Developing States.<br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The Minister also said, the 'Call for Proposals' envisaging infrastructure resilience priorities of SIDS and the Vision Document 2022-2030 of IRIS were launched on the sidelines of the 27th Session of COP-27 in Sharm-El-Sheikh.</span><br />