DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT of MALDA Government of West Bengal July, 2021
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DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT OF MALDA (For mining of minor minerals) As per Notification No. S.O.3611 (E) New Delhi Dated 25th of July 2018 and Enforcement & Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining (EMGSM) January 2020, Issued by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF & CC) Government of West Bengal (WORK ORDER No: MDTC/PM-5/160/66, dated 20.01.2020) July, 2021 CONSULTANT District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal Content Chapter Subject Page No No 1 Preface 1-6 2 Introduction 7-21 3 General Profile of the District 22-48 a. General Information 22-24 b. Climate Condition 25 c. Rainfall and humidity 25-27 d. Topography & Terrain 27-29 e. Water courses and Hydrology 30 f. Ground water Development 30-32 g. Drainage System 32-34 h. Demography 35-38 i. Cropping pattern 39-41 j. Land Form and Seismicity 41-44 k. Flora 45 l. Fauna 45-48 4 Physiography of the District 49-53 a) General Landforms 49 b) Soil and rock pattern 49-52 c) Different geomorphology units 52-53 5 Land Use Pattern of The District 54-65 a) Forest 57-58 b) Agriculture and Irrigation 58-62 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal Chapter Subject Page No No c) Horticulture 63-65 d) Mining 65 6 Geology 66-68 7 Mineral Wealth 69-88 7.1 Overview of mineral resources 69 7.2 Details of Resources 69-88 A) Sand and other riverbed minerals 69-87 I. Drainage System 69-71 II. Annual deposition of riverbed minerals 71-86 A. Geomorphological studies 71-84 i. Place of Origin 72 ii. Catchment Area 72 iii. General profile of river stream 72-74 iv. Annual deposition factor 75-78 v. Replenishment Study as per EMGSM 78-84 guidelines 2020 vi. Total potential of minor mineral in the 84 river bed B. Geological studies 84 i. Lithology of the catchment area 84 ii. Tectonics and structural behavior of 84 rocks C. Climate Factors 84-86 i. Intensity of rainfall 84 ii. Climate zone 84-85 iii. Temperature variation 85-86 III. Riverbed Mineral Potential 86 IV. Riverbed Mineral Potential Zones 86-87 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal Chapter Subject Page No No B) In-situ Minerals 88 I. Mineral Potential 88 II. Mineral Occurrence 88 8 Overview Of Mining Activity in The District 89-92 a) General overview 89 b) List of existing mining leases of the districts (location, area, 89-92 period for each minor mineral) c) Detail of production of sand and other minerals during last three 92 years Details Of Revenue Generated from Mineral Sector 9 93 During Last Three Years 10 Transport 94-95 11 Remedial measure to mitigate the impact of Mining 96-99 12 Suggested reclamation plan for already mined out areas 100 13 Risk assessment & disaster management plan 101-102 14 Summary 103 15 References 104 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal List of Annexure Annexure Subject Page No. No. Annexure 1: List of Brick Earth Mines in the District 1 List of Plate Plate No. Subject Page No. Plate 1: Drainage Map of Malda District 1-2 Plate 2A: Distribution Map of Sand Bars on Rivers During Pre- 3-17 Monsoon Period of Malda District Plate 2B: Distribution Map of Sand Bars on Rivers During Post- 18-32 Monsoon Period of Malda District WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal List of Figures Figure No. Subject Page No. Figure 2-1: Pictorial Descriptions of Physiography 16-18 Figure 2-2: Pictorial Description of Geomorphic Features 19 Figure 3-1: Location Map of Malda 22 Figure 3-2: Block Map of Malda 24 26 Figure 3-3: Graphical Representation of Rainfall data of year 2014-18 Figure 3-4: Physiography Map of Malda 29 32 Figure 3-5: Graphical Representation of Ground water data of Malda Figure 3-6: Drainage Map of Malda 34 Figure 3-7: Demographic Map of Population in Malda 37 Figure 3-8: Demographic Map of Literacy Rate in Malda 38 Figure 3-9: Seismic Map of Malda 44 Figure 3-10: Wildlife Map of Malda 48 Figure 4-1: Soil Map of Malda 52 Figure 4-2: Geomorphological Map of Malda 53 Figure 5-1: Land use and Land cover Map of Malda 56 Figure 6-1: Geological Map of Malda 68 73 Plan showing the major rivers along with the distribution Figure 7-1: of Section Lines, Malda District, West Bengal 73 Figure 7-2: Cross section of Ganga River in pre-monsoon period Figure 7-3: Cross section of Ganga River in post-monsoon period 74 Figure 7-4: Cross section of Rivers in pre-monsoon period 74 Figure 7-5: Cross section of Rivers in post-monsoon period 74 Figure 10-1: Transportation Map of Malda 95 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal List of Tables Table No. Subject Page No. Requirement of District Survey Report & its year wise Table 2-1: 9-10 modification of Guidelines Sub-division of block Area and Population wise in Malda Table 3-1: 23 District Table 3-2: Rainfall Data of Malda from 2104-18 26 Monthly average temperature distribution of Malda Table 3-3: 27 District: Comparison of Pre-Monsoon and Post Monsoon data Table 3-4: 31 from year 1996-2018 in Malda District Table 3-5: River flowing in Malda District 32-33 Table 3-6: Demographic distribution of Malda District 35-36 Table 3-7: Block wise Cropping Pattern of Malda district (2010-11) 39-40 Table 3-8: Cropping Intensity in Malda District 41 Table 3-9: Seismic zone with intensity of Earthquake 43 Table 3-10: Diversity of Fishes Malda District 45-46 Table 3-11: Diversity of Birds in Malda District 46-47 Table 4-1: Description of Soil District soil type of Malda 50-51 Classification of Land Utilization Statistics in the district Table 5-1: 55 of Malda Table 5-2: Classification of Forest Area in Malda 57-58 Forest Area, Out-turn of Forest Produce, Revenue and Table 5-3: Expenditure of Forest Department from 2009-10 to 2013- 58 14 Production of Principal Crops (Thousand Tones) in the Table 5-4: 59-60 district of Malda Yield rate of the principal crops in this district of Malda Table 5-5: 60-61 from 2009-10 to 2013-14 Area ((Thousand Hectors) Irrigated by different sources Table 5-6: 62 in the district of Malda Table 5-7: Sources of Irrigation in the district of Malda (Number) 62 Table 5-8: Area and Production of Fruits in the district of Malda 63 Table 5-9: Area and Production of Vegetables in the district of Malda 64 Area and Production of Flowers in the district of Uttar Table 5-10: 64 Dinajpur Table 6-1: Geological formation of Malda District 67-68 Table 7-1: Drainage system with description of Main Rivers 71 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal Table No. Subject Page No. Table 7-2: Salient Features of important rivers and streams 71 Table 7-3: Place of Origin of important rivers and streams 72 Estimation of sand resources in pre-monsoon period and Table 7-4: 80-83 post-monsoon period in sand bars Sediment load comparison between pre and post Table 7-5: 83 monsoon periods for different rivers of malda district Table 7-6: Annual deposition of Riverbed minerals 85 Table 7-7: Resources of Potential Riverbed Mineral 86 Table 7-8: Potential Zone of Riverbed Mineral 86-87 Table 7-9: In-situ minerals Occurrences 88 Table 8-1: Details of mining leases of the districts 89-90 Table 8-2: Details of estimated total area for sand production 91-92 Detail of production of sand and other minerals during Table 8-3: 92 last three years Table 9-1: District revenue generation from Mineral sector 93 WORK ORDER No. MDTC/PM-5/160/66 dated 20.01.2020 District Survey Report Malda, West Bengal 1. Preface The need for District Survey Report (DSR) have been necessitated by MoEF & CC vide there Notification No. 125 (Extraordinary, Part II Section 3, Sub-section ii), S.O. 141 (E), dated 15th January 2016. The notification was addressed to bring certain amendments with respect to the EIA notification 2006 and in order to have a better control over the legislation, district level committee’s for introduced in the system. As a part of this notification, preparation of District Survey Reports has been introduced. Subsequently, MOEF & CC has published Notification No. 3611 (E), dt. 25th July, 2018 regarding inclusion of the “Minerals Other than Sand” and format for preparation of the DSR has been specified. Monitoring Guidelines for Sand Mining (EMGSM) January 2020, Issued by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is prepared in consideration of various orders/directions issued by Hon’ble NGT in matters pertaining to illegal sand mining and also based on the reports submitted by expert committees and investigation teams. This DSR has been prepared in conformity with the S O 141 (E), S O 3611 (E) and other sand mining guidelines published by MOEF & CC time to time as well as the requirement specified in WBMMCR, 2016.