Current Affair 1:

News:

The report titled ‘District-level Climate Risk Assessment for India: Mapping Flood and Drought Risks Using the IPCC Framework’ containing an in-depth analysis of flood and drought risks across 698 districts in India, was released on 13 December 2024 at IIT Delhi.

Key findings:

The report's Flood Risk Assessment highlighted:

1. fifty-one districts fall into the ‘Very High’ flood risk category, and
2. another 118 districts fall into the ‘High’ flood risk category.
3. About 85% of districts in the ‘Very High’ or ‘High’ flood risk category are in Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir.

The Drought Risk Assessment indicates the variation in drought risk across districts of India.

1. On a comparative scale, ninety-one districts fall in the ‘Very High’ drought risk category and
2. another 188 districts in the ‘High’ drought risk category.
3. More than 85% of districts in the ‘Very High’ or ‘High’ drought risk category are located in Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Haryana.

Dual Risk of Flood and Drought shows that a

1. 11 districts are at a ‘Very High’ risk of flood and drought.
2. Districts facing this dual risk include Patna in Bihar; Alappuzha in Kerala; Charaideo, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, South SalmaraMankachar, and Golaghat in Assam; Kendrapara in Odisha, and Murshidabad, Nadia, and Uttar Dinajpur in West Bengal.

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