How mining activities responsible for land degradation in jharkhand?
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(i) Mining sites are abandoned after excavation work is completed leaving deep scars and traces of over burdening.
(ii) In states like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa deforestation due to mining have caused severe land degradation.
(iii) In the states of Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, over irrigation is responsible for degradation due to water logging leading to increase in salinity and alkalinity in the soil.
(iv) The Mineral processing like grinding of limestone for cement industry and calcite and soapstone for ceramic industry generate large quantity of dust in the atmosphere.
(v) It retards the process of infiltration of water into the soil.
in jharkhand,
Mining sites are abandoned after excavation work is complete leaving deep scars in states such as Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Deforestation due to mining has caused severe land degradation. Overgrazing is also one of the main reasons for land degradation. Such activities leave traces of over-burdening.
To get rid of this land degradation, Proper management of wastelands and control of mining activities is to be initiated
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Mining activities are responsible for land degradation in jharkhand by the following reasons -
I. Jharkhand is a state which is rich in mineral resources
ii. Due to rich in mineral resources , mining activities are done here at very large scale.
iii. When excavation activities completed the mining sites represent deep scars and evidences of over burdening which lead to land degradation
iv. Mining activities leads to deforestation which also causes land degradation
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