Salient 02 · · · · · · · · · 12.5

sq. km. abandone In West East In dense scru 41.88 Mining wastelands Maximum increaseisobservedin Maximum A netincreaseofWastelandsby open scru land withopenscru by 31.61sq.km.; Rhibhoi West 55 We Khasi Fe Khasi st GaroHills sq. Barren rocky atur Garo b km. d b Hills decrease district, by35.93sq.km.;

Hills Jhum increasedby44.56sq. km. category.;whereas21.94sq.km.isbroughtunderbuiltupduringthisperiod,. 07 of Hill es

district district

shi in wastelands s South GaroHill areawitnessedincreaseof53.86sq.km. wastelands district, East GaroHill b areadecreasedby2.26sq.km. 5 is whichhasincreasedby82.10 observed witnessed g witnessed culvao 100 s s wastelands

Km. area area 59.33 sq.km.isobservedduringthisperiod

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land decreased ASSAM current Jhum Wa We BANGLADESH 2008-09 -2015-16 area st KhasiHill with ste ME in in d into increased wastelands area lands Chang by s GHALA ense 0.95 decreasedby26.71sq.km. forest sq. km. under -abandoned Jhum s crub sq. by which YA wastelands area

km.; 16.86 by East KhasiHills 58.52

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otal Geographical scru land this sq. km. sq. Jaintia Hill b w is

has km. c mainly ith by ulvaon 3.01 -8.00 1.01 -3.00 0.51 -1.00 0.1 0.06 -0.10 0.01 -0.05

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Ri-Bhoi Legend Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Medium) Gullied and/ or ravinous land (Deep) Land with Dense Scrub East Garo Hills Land with Open Scrub Waterlogged and Marshy land (Permanent) Waterlogged and Marshy land (Seasonal) West Garo Hills West Khasi Hills Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Moderate) Land Affected by salinity / alkalinity (Strong) Shifting Cultivation - Current Jhum East Khasi Hills Jaintia Hills Shifting Cultivation - Abandoned Jhum Under-utilised/degraded forest (Scrub domin) South Garo Hills Under-utilised/degraded forest (Agriculture) Degraded pastures/grazing land Degraded land under plantation crop Sands - Riverine BANGLADESH Sands - Coastal Sands - Desertic Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab > 40m Sands - Semi Stab:- Stab 15-40m Mining Wastelands Industrial Wastelands 22; 6% Barren Rocky Area 11; 2% 20; 1% Snow Covered/ Glacial Area 10; 10% 3; 12% Non Wasteland Area 9; 6% Water ways District Boundary Railways 4; 63% Major Roads

0210 0406080 Kms Land Use & Cover Monitoring Divn. North East Space Application Centre Dept. of Land Resources LRUMG,Remote Sensing Application Total Geog. Area (TGA): Source: Wasteland Maps: 2008-09 on 1:50,000 scale, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India Min. of Rural Development 22429.00 sq. km. National Remote Sensing Centre Total wasteland area : Three seasons IRS P6 LISS-III data of Kharif(Oct/Nov-2015), Umiam G - Wing, Nirman Bhawan 4135.77 sq. km. ISRO, Dept. of Space, GOI Wasteland Percentage: Rabi (Jan/Feb-2016) and Zaid (April/May-2016) & Ground truth Meghalaya-793103 GOI, New Delhi - 110 011 18.44 Partner Inst. Executed By

Balanagar, Hyderabad - 500037 Sponsored by MEGHALAYA Wastelands Area Change Matrix : 2008-09 and 2015-16

PAGE 145 PAGE 146 Note: “--”DenotesthisClassisnotexistingintheDistrict/State Wastelands AreaChanges–2008-09and2015-16 Meghalaya South GaroHills West KhasiHills West GaroHills East KhasiHills East GaroHills Jaintia Hills Grand Total District Ri-Bhoi WL_Class 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 2015-16 2008-09 Change Change Change Change Change Change Change Change 1 ------6. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Seasonal) 5. Waterlogged andMarshyland(Permanent) 4. LandwithOpenScrub 3. LandwithDenseScrub 2. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Deep) 1. Gulliedand/orravinousland(Medium) 2 ------509.98 568.50 161.04 254.07 166.18 146.23 -58.52 -93.03 13.94 39.19 25.25 68.88 69.94 19.94 63.22 65.89 -1.06 -2.67 3 3.52 3.71 0.18 0.83 7.76 6.94 2612.19 2648.12 731.27 649.18 367.25 393.34 259.62 291.23 866.61 917.65 213.16 213.18 151.10 159.02 -35.93 -26.09 -31.61 -51.04 82.10 23.18 24.53 -1.35 -0.02 -7.91 4 5 ------2008-09 Wastelands statisticsarerevisedversion. 6 0.00 0.01 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.01 ------12. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Agriculture) 11. Under-utilised/degradedforest(Scrubdomin) 10. ShiftingCultivation- Abandoned Jhum 9. 8. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity (Strong) 7. Landaffected bysalinity/alkalinity (Medium) Shifting Cultivation-CurrentJhum 7 ------8 ------237.87 281.73 112.07 127.88 -43.86 -15.81 -18.65 -26.71 34.73 27.97 18.23 36.88 24.21 50.93 13.95 13.71 10.18 34.56 24.38 9 6.76 0.25 0.12 0.12 -- 147.27 422.68 275.42 168.61 124.04 21.21 51.65 30.44 44.56 22.74 94.52 71.79 37.56 46.84 11.48 51.24 39.76 10 9.29 9.72 9.82 0.09 ------64.61 68.32 13.67 15.00 12.03 12.16 27.20 29.41 11 -3.71 -0.02 -1.33 -0.12 -2.21 -0.02 0.02 0.00 1.96 1.96 2.08 2.10 0.00 7.67 7.67 -- TGA -Total Geographical Area 18. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab>40m 17. Sands-Desertic 16. Sands-Coastal 15. Sands-Riverine 14. Degradedlandunderplantationcrop 13. Degradedpastures/grazingland 12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ------13 ------14 ------15 0.00 0.15 0.15 0.00 0.15 0.15 ------16 ------23. Snowcovered/Glacialarea 22. BarrenRocky/Stonywaste 21. Industrialwastelands 20. MiningWastelands 19. Sands-SemiStab.-Stab15-40m 17 ------18 ------19 ------53.86 54.49 52.73 52.73 20 0.63 0.59 0.59 0.54 1.17 0.63 ------21 ------233.78 233.55 161.89 164.15 43.33 42.43 27.99 26.65 22 -2.26 0.24 0.90 0.26 0.26 0.00 0.32 0.32 1.34 ------23 ------4135.77 4076.43 1022.60 1004.10 1002.01 Area insq.km Total 689.34 672.48 218.81 218.46 508.88 509.83 987.69 386.34 387.16 307.79 296.71 59.33 18.50 16.86 14.31 11.08 -0.95 -0.82 0.35 22429 TGA 5247 3714 1850 2448 3819 2748 2603

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