NEW DELHI: Just a week after telling the court that it had framed the National Disaster Plan to handle natural calamities like drought , the Centre on Tuesday did a U-turn and told the Supreme Court that the plan had not so far been formulated.The Centre had on April 19 told a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and N V Ramana that the government had framed the plan under the Disaster Management Act and assured the court to place a copy of plan before it.When the bench, which was hearing a PIL seeking relief to drought hit people, asked the additional solicitor general PS Narasimha about the plan then the law officer informed the court the plan was being formulated and it had not been finalised.Disaster Management Act was passed in 2005 and the country witnessed many natural calamities in the last decade but surprisingly the Centre has so far not framed National Plan for prevention and handling of disaster. Section 11 of the Act says that a national plan be drawn up for disaster management for the whole of the country and to fix roles and responsibilities of different ministries to effectively respond to any threatening disaster situations or disaster.In the meanwhile, the bench concluded the hearing on Swaraj Abhiyan's petition on drought relief and reserved its verdict. During the hearing, advocate Prashat Bhushan contended that the Centre had given a wrong figure of 33 crore population reeling under drought.As per the government figure, more than 25 percent of population and 254 districts were reeling under the natural catastrophe and more than 2.55 lakh villages were under the grip of the drought.Countering the contention of the Centre, Bhushan if the population of 254 districts were were added, then the number of affected people would come around 43 crore.