Current Context: Over half million displaced from natural disasters and violent conflict in India in 2023.

• Floods, cyclones, earthquakes and other disasters triggered over half a million internal displacements in India in 2023.
• Report released by : Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

RELEVANT FACTS:

• Nearly 4 million displacements occurred in 2023 due to natural disasters such as floods, storms, earthquake, the third-highest annual total in the past ten years.
• Internal displacements by natural disasters in 2023 was 528,000 was declined from 2.5 million due to natural disasters in the country in 2022.
• An, additional 67000 were displaced due to conflict and violence mostly in Northeast state of Manipur in 2023. However, the number was 1000 in 2022.
• 105,000 people were displaced in Gujarat and Rajasthan after cyclone Biparjoy.
• Flood displacement figure for India was the lowest since data became available in 2008 at 352,000 movements.
  • The largest flood event, which triggered about 91,000 people’s displacement, occurred in the state of Assam in June of 2023 when heavy rains hit 20 districts in the state.