Displacement of population or forced migration causes profound economic and cultural disruption to the displaced persons and thereby social fabric of the communities of the area gets completely shattered. Such displaced persons have been known by different terms depending on causes of displacement, distance they move and administrative boundary they cross. There are currently 25 million internally displaced persons uprooted by conflict and human rights violations worldwide. In India at the beginning of 2006 there were about 600,000 IDPs because of political violence. This figure at the end of 2003 (reference period of study) was about 650,000, of whom between 250,000 to 450,000 were from Kashmir and 250,000 others from northeast India (IDMC, 2007).
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