International Journal of Physical and Social Science Vol. 8 Issue 9, September 2018 ISSN: 2249-5894 Impact Factor: 6.644 Journal Homepage: http://www.ijmra.us, Email:
[email protected] Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed Open Access International Journal - Included in the International Serial Directories Indexed & Listed at: Ulrich's Periodicals Directory ©, U.S.A., Open J-Gage as well as in Cabell’s Directories of Publishing Opportunities, U.S.A Temporal Analysis of Trends in Groundwater Level of Jind District, Haryana Sitender Reena Abstract Dependence on groundwater has increased in past few decades due to changing climatic scenario, growth of human population, industrialization and urbanization to meet the resultant needs. Consequently, it has been mined in excess to that is available that has resulted in lowering of groundwater table. India being the world’s largest consumer of groundwater is affected badly by this problem, especially the parts of Indo-Gangetic plain like Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Western part of Uttar Pradesh. Haryana being an agrarian state is in a critical position with respect to groundwater with 56cm per year depletion rate. Present research will focus on analyzing the trends of groundwater level of one of the Department of Geography, CRS University, Jind, Haryana Department of Grography, Govt. College, Jind, haryana 16 International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences http://www.ijmra.us, Email:
[email protected] ISSN: 2249-5894 Impact Factor: 6.644 Keywords: agriculturally developed district of Haryana state i.e. Jind, Groundwater; from the year 1975 to 2015. The data for the study is taken from Groundwater Cell, Directorate of Agriculture, Haryana; Panchkula, Haryana.