This year’s report, which compiles eviction data across 2022 & 2023, highlights the exponential increase in evictions in India resulting in the highest recorded figures since the establishment of this observatory.

In at least 36 per cent of evictions in 2023 and 27 per cent of evictions in 2022, affected persons belonged to historically marginalized groups, including religious minorities, Adivasis/Scheduled Tribes, Dalits/Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes, as well as nomadic and indigenous communities, such as the Gadia Lohars.