Entwining Environment, People and the State : Thinking of a Right Based Approach for the Internally Displaced Persons in Assam

Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, are the conditions which characterize the lives of million people across the globe, yet the rates of such displacement are quite high in South Asia. It is mainly because of the sophisticated geography. The geography of India has been very much fragile and the Northeast India in particular becomes one of the most earth-quake prone areas. Displacements in Northeast become an alarming issue because of the environmental impediments. These hazards composed of Flood, River Bank erosion, Earth Quake etc. Among them Flood and River Bank Erosion is potentially more challenging. Flood damage does not only impediment to the crops but also to the lives, houses and other living and non-living property. Although flood cost material lost to the human being but the major devastation cost by the flood is off course the gross and trembling river bank erosion. River-bank erosion is a natural as well as continuous atmosphere, witness by the State of Assam. River-bank erosion is factually a unique feature of such geographical areas, which are marked by active rivers, which frequently shift their bank-line. Understanding the fact, the river bank erosion is not just a problem exclusive to the Assam or India it is indeed a major issue to the whole of south Asia. The present paper will be intended to study how flood and river bank erosion have contributed displacement in the state of Assam and to find out what role shall the state play to mitigate the menace of Internal Displacement caused by these ecological hazards