Look within

In a world obsessed with global migration and international refugees, another vulnerable constituency internally displaced people often disappears through the cracks of welfare policy.

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But data suggest that the time to act, for the world and India, to alleviate their sufferings is now. According to a report published by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, India recorded 32.3 million internal displacements on account of natural disasters primarily storms and floods between 2015 and 2024. The global statistics make for equally grim reading: 210 countries registered 264.8 million forced movements, with East Asia and South Asia being the most adversely affected during this period. Little wonder then that Bangladesh, China and the Philippines, apart from India, figured prominently on the IDMC list. India’s global ranking on risk was third, after China and the Philippines. The going, unfortunate