According to the study, about 85% of the districts of Assam, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, Odisha, and Jammu and Kashmir are in the “very high” flood risk category. Fifty-one districts face “very high” flood risk and 118 come under ‘high” risk category.More than 85% of the districts in the ‘very high’ drought risk category belong to Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Haryana.Ninety-one districts facing ‘very high’ drought risk, and 188 districts facing ‘high’ drought risk predominantly belong to Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam, Odisha and Maharashtra.Eleven districts facing both ‘very high’ flood and drought risks include Patna (Bihar); Alappuzha (Kerala); Charaideo, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, South Salmara-Mankachar and Golaghat (Assam); Kendrapara (Odisha); and Murshidabad, Nadia, and Uttar Dinajpur (West Bengal).“Now challenge is to translate these findings into on-ground actions as essentials, and insights must reach every stakeholder at national and state levels,” said Anita Gupta, head of scientific division, DST.
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