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Hindustan Times
6 days ago
- Climate
- Hindustan Times
‘Over 3K natural disaster deaths in 2024-25'
The number of people that died on account of natural disasters (including extreme weather events) was 3080 in 2024-25, the highest since 2013-14 according to a provisional estimate of the number from the Disaster Management (DM) division of the home affairs ministry, although the number is likely to be a significant underestimate, if past trend data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) is any indication. The 3080 number was published by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on June 5 in its annual compilation of environment-related statistics in the EnviStats report. This number is 18% more than the provisional number for 2023-24; and the highest since 2013-14, when it r was 5,677. In fact, the 2024-25 figure is the fourth highest figure since 2001-02, the earliest year for which the EnviStats report gives data. To be sure, the DM division numbers compiled in the EnviStats report are a gross under-estimate of total deaths from natural disasters in India. The latter is available from the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India (ADSI) report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which was last published in 2023 for the year 2022. ADSI data – also compiled in the EnviStats report – shows that there were an average 7,526 deaths due to natural disasters in each of the five years ending 2022, of which 2,772 deaths were just from lightning and another 2,034 deaths were filed under a non-specific head. In all the five years from 2018 to 2022, total natural disaster deaths were at least 6,891 and lightning and miscellaneous deaths at least 2,357 and 1,706 respectively. Therefore, the provisional estimate for 2024-25 cited above makes sense only if these two are excluded. To be sure, only DM division numbers have been compared above for the 2001-02 to 2024-25 period. The DM division numbers also show that while human deaths were at an 11-year high in 2024-25, this was not the case with the number of houses damaged or cattle lost or cropped area affected. The loss of 61,960 cattle in 2024-25 is 48% less than in 2023-24 and ranked only 10th highest since 2001-02. The number of houses damaged – 3,64,124 -- was 2.6 times that in 2023-24, but ranked fifth lowest since 2001-02. Similarly, 1.42 million hectares of cropped area affected was 6% more than in 2023-24, but the area is second lowest since 2001-02.
Time of India
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Supreme Court to Centre: Publish road accidents report 2023 by August
Supreme Court of India NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has directed the road transport and highways ministry to publish the annual report of " Road Accidents in India of 2023" by Aug and said such reports should be made public within six month after the end of every calendar year so that these can be "useful".Interestingly, the National Crime Records Bureau, which comes under the home ministry, has also not yet published the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report of 2023, even one and a half years after the end of that calendar SC direction to the road transport ministry for publishing the report came after the govt informed a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan that the "process of publication of the report is going on". While granting time till Aug, the court said, "We also direct MoRTH to ensure that such annual reports are published within a period of six months from expiry of the calendar year. Only if such reports are published with promptness, the same can be useful."Road safety experts and activists have raised questions on the delay in publication of the report which is crucial for deciding on interventions. They have also urged the govt to make some data collected through the " Integrated Road Accident Database ", which details cause of crashes with exact location, public so that different entities can take corrective steps. "These data should be made public rather than giving them to a couple of entities for their advantage, if the target is to make road safety a mass movement," said one of them. Earlier this year, the home ministry had informed Rajya Sabha that "data validation for the 2023 report is in the final stage".
Time of India
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
SC directs road transport ministry to publish ‘Road Accidents in India of 2023' by August
Supreme Court NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has directed the road transport and highways ministry to publish the annual report of 'Road Accidents in India of 2023' by Aug and said such reports should be made public within six month after the end of every calendar year so that these can be 'useful'. Interestingly, the National Crime Records Bureau, which comes under the home ministry, has also not yet published the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report of 2023, even one and a half years after the end of that calendar year. The SC direction to the road transport ministry for publishing the report came after the govt informed a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan that the 'process of publication of the report is going on'. While granting time till Aug, the court said, 'We also direct MoRTH to ensure that such annual reports are published within a period of six months from expiry of the calendar year. Only if such reports are published with promptness, the same can be useful.' Road safety experts and activists have raised questions on the delay in publication of the report which is crucial for deciding on interventions. They have also urged the govt to make some data collected through the 'Integrated Road Accident Database (IRAD)', which details cause of crashes with exact location, public so that different entities can take corrective steps. 'These data should be made public rather than giving them to a couple of entities for their advantage, if the target is to make road safety a mass movement,' said one of them. Earlier this year, the home ministry had informed Rajya Sabha that 'data validation for the 2023 report (NCRB) is in the final stage'.
