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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Calamities displace 23 lakh every year in India -Pradeep Thakur

Calamities displace 23 lakh every year in India -Pradeep Thakur

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published Published on Oct 13, 2017   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2017
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: India ranks the highest among the world's most disaster-prone countries for displacement of residents, with 23 lakh, on average, uprooted due to calamities such as floods, cyclones and earthquakes.

A UN study, to be released on the International Day for Disaster Reduction on Friday, forecast a continued rise in homelessness.

China, with annual average displacement of 13 lakh, ranks second.

The estimation of displaced people in India may be on the lower side considering that, in the recent Bihar floods alone, about 1.75 crore were affected and 8.55 lakh evacuated. Floods hit at least half a dozen other states this year.

"Most of this displacement is being driven by flooding, which is on the increase in a warming world where population growth in hazard-prone parts of the globe has increased exposure," said the study,

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The Times of India, 13 October, 2017, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/calamities-displace-23-lakh-every-year/articleshow/61060372.cms


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