Natural disasters, including cyclones and devastating floods, triggered internal displacement of 12.5 million people in South Asia in 2022 and Bangladesh, India and Pakistan were the most affected by floods, says a report by Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Government help must be both quick and sustainable

According to IPCC6, about 17 percent of our population must be relocated within the next decade due to these rising sea levels.

Today is the dreadful April 29. On this day in 1991, Gorky, a tropical cyclone, lashed the coastal areas of southern Bangladesh with a wind speed of 155 miles per hour. It claimed 138,000 lives, leaving about one crore people homeless.