Mizoram tops in Landslide Atlas of India 2023

Aizawl, 7 March (Zoram News): Mizoram tops in Landslide Atlas of India 2023 with 12,385  incident were recorded in Mizoram from 1988 to 2022.

Between 1988 and 2022, the maximum number of landslides — 12,385 — were recorded in Mizoram. Uttarakhand followed it at 11,219, Tripura at 8,070, Arunachal Pradesh at 7,689, Jammu and Kashmir at 7,280. Kerala saw 6,039, Manipur at 5,494 and Maharashtra recorded 5,112 incidents of landslides.

Globally, landslides rank third in terms of deaths among natural disasters. However, deforestation due to unplanned urbanisation and human greed increases the risk of such incidents. In 2006, about 4 million people were affected by landslides, including a large number of Indians, the report said.

India is among the four major countries where the risk of landslides is the highest, it added. If we look at the figures, about 0.42 million square kilometres in the country are prone to landslides, which is 12.6 per cent of the total land area of ​​the country.

However, the figure does not include snow-covered areas. Around 0.18 million sq km of the landslide-prone areas in the country are in North East Himalaya, including Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya, the atlas said