"On the night of September 2, Shabir Ahmad's home was swallowed by mud and swept into the river after relentless rains triggered a landslide in Sarh village in Indian-administered Kashmir's Reasi district. I had been building my house brick by brick since 2016. It was my life's work. Only less than a year ago, I had finished constructing the second floor, and now there is nothing, the 36-year-old father of three children told Al Jazeera."
"Ahmad's was among nearly 20 houses in Sarh lost to the Chenab River that night, including one belonging to his brother, as dozens of families helplessly watched their farmlands, shops and other properties worth millions of rupees vanish without a trace. We don't even have one inch of land left to stand on, said Ahmad from a government school in Sarh, where his family and other villagers were sheltering after the deluge."
"According to the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), climate-related disasters forced more than 32 million people from their homes in India between 2015 and 2024, with 5.4 million displacements recorded in 2024 alone the highest in 12 years. This makes India one of the three nations most affected by internal displacements due to climate change in that period, with China and the Philippines being the top two."
A landslide in Sarh village, Reasi district, swept homes and livelihoods into the Chenab River, leaving families sheltering in a government school. Nearly 20 houses were lost that night, including a newly completed second floor of one home, and farmlands, shops and properties worth millions of rupees vanished. Climate-related disasters forced more than 32 million people from their homes in India between 2015 and 2024, with 5.4 million displacements in 2024 alone. More than 160,000 people were displaced in the first half of 2025. The government has allocated zero budget to a flagship adaptation scheme for two years.
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