All India, Year wise Deaths due to Heatwaves as reported by NDMA, MoSPI, NCRB, MoES, WMO and IMD

This dataset consists of the number of deaths due to heatwaves reported by different agencies/organizations. These are listed below: 1. MoSPI or MoES: Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) published data on heat wave deaths in its annual Envistats report until 2021. Since 2022, the data has been collated from the Ministry of Earth Sciences since in the Envistats report, the source is mentioned as the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences. 2. National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA): The data reported by this organization in some of its reports and workshop content has been collated. Values shared by Ministry of Health in the Parliament , which started recording the figures since 2015, is same as this until 2022. 3. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 4. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)'s Accidental Deaths and Suicides India report: Data on heat stroke deaths reported by police departments at state level is presented in the report, which has been collated in the dataset. 5. IMD: Data on heatwave deaths reported by the IMD in its annual reports has been collated separately since the figures are slightly different from that reported by MoSPI/MoES.