New Delhi: The European Commission (EU) will provide emergency funding of Rs.200 million for flood victims in India, an official said.

The funding, channelled through the EU's humanitarian partners, will provide food assistance, shelter, water and sanitation and basic household items.

Kristalina Georgieva, the Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, said that floods have affected some four million people in eastern India and has displaced between 200,000 and 300,000 people, who are in urgent need of humanitarian relief.

"Once again, the yearly rains are hurting the most vulnerable, depriving them of bare necessities like food and shelter. The floods are threatening the lives of tens of thousands of already weakened and susceptible people in India. Homes, crops and livelihoods have been lost and needs exceed the government's response capacity," she said in a statement.