District Survey Report 1

APPENDIX – X [See paragraph 7 (iii) (a)] DISTRICT SURVEY REPORT 1. Introduction District Collector, Jalgaon intends to auction sand from identified sand ghat Collector Jalgaon initiated proposal for environmental clearance in response to comply orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court. Environmental clearance has to be granted by DEAC, DEIAA as per the latest notifications. Date 15.01.2016 Applicant has already surveyed the sand ghats by GSDA for quantification of sand availability at each sand ghats. There is a perpetual demand for sand in construction – road and building activities. Such locally available material is economical from logistics view point. Such quarries have been a source of livelihood for both skilled and unskilled labor. Auction of sand is one of the important source of revenue for the district. Also sand scooping is important to maintain river ecology. 2. Overview of Mining Activity in the District Total Tahsils : 15 (Jamner & Bodwad Tahasil No Sand Ghat) Total Rivers : 14 (Tapi, Girna, Waghur, Bori, Panzara, Gul, Mor, Suki, Purna, Aner, Anjani, Champavati, Titur & Bahula) Sand Ghats : 39 (Year 2017-18) 3. The List of Mining Leases in the District with location, are and period of validity S.No. Name of lease Place & servey no. Area Status of land Period of lease holder 1 Dilip Devram Rukhnkhede Tq. 1.89 Hec. Private 5 Years Nikam Chopda s.no.83/1 2 Sharad Shivnarayan Savade Pra.cha. Tq. 4.49 Hec. Private 5 Years Kasat Erandol S.no.273/2, 274/3 A&B 3 Anil Ashok kasat Savade Pra.cha. Tq. 3.05 Hec. Private 5Years Erandol S.no.261/1, 262/2 3. Details of Royalty or Revenue received in last three years 2014-15 : 431408000/- Rs 2015-16 : 496812000/- Rs 2016-17 : 572886000/- Rs 4. Details of Production of Sand or Bajari or minor mineral in last three years 2014-15 : 58547 Brass 2015-16 : 54326 Brass 2016-17 : 54485 Brass 5. Process of Deposition of Sediments in the rivers of the District During the flood time thickness of sand deposited in the river near to the sand ghats. 6. General Profile of the District Jalgaon district is known for its advances in horticulture. Its production of bananas and cotton, especially by resorting to drip irrigation, has created a role model for cultivators in other parts of India. Bananas grown in the district are exported outside the State and to other countries. Mehrun village is famous for its unique bor (jubjube). Amalner is regarded as Pandharpur of Khandesh. Centuries ago, Sant Muktabai’s stay in the district has made it a holy place since. In present times, legendary poetess Bahinabai Chaudhari of Jalgaon spread the fame of the Ahirani dialect across the seven seas. Sane Guruji awakened the labour class while Balkavi Thomre’s poetry enriched socio-cultural life of the district 7. Land Utilization Pattern in the district : Forest, Agriculture, Horticulture, Mining etc. Forest : Geographical area 11757 sq.km. Where forest area is 1707 sq.km. Agriculture : Banana, cotton, sugarcane , oil seeds, pulses. Horticulture :47424 Hec. Mining : Bolder, Murum, Soil & Sand 8. Physiographic of the District Although Jalgaon and Dhulia districts belong to the Deccan Uplands of the Maharashtra State, they are distinguished from the rcst 0f the upland districts by their westward aspect. While the rest of the upland region is drained by the major rivers to the east, the Tapi and its tributaries drain the Jalgaon region to the west towards Arabian Sea. The landscape is typically that of the Deccan lavas with residual hill ranges and broad valleys, with trap dykes introducing a sharp local contrast as small chains of hillocks. Thus Jalgaon includes varied topographical features and landscapes, consisting of wild hills and forests, rich gardens and groves, stretches of barren plain, low rolling rocky hills and tensely gullied (bad land) topography near major river banks. Regionally, from east to west, parallel with the Tapi, are three well.marked belts of country; in the centre the rich Tapi valley ,in the north the high and wild Satpuda, and in the south and south-west bare ridges and rich well-watered valleys flanked by the Ajanta range. The Tapi Valley. The Tapi banks are high and bare, and due to heavy regional erosion the land on both sides is seamed by tributary rivers and streams. Now and again from the north, spurs of the Satpuda stretch close to the river bank, and on the south rise some low barren hill ranges. With these exceptions, the long central plain is for about 80 miles from Burhanpur to the western limit of the district which is co-terminus with the confluence of Aner and Bori rivers with the Tapi. Although the Tapi valley consists of a vast alluvial plain, intense erosion- riverine and gully is the major key-note of its landscape, and it acts as a serious and increasing limitation on the traditional agricultural wealth of the region. This is particularly noticeable on the northern flank between Faizpur and Chopda, and on the southern in the immediate vicinity of the Girna and the Vaghur rivers. Cultivation evidently dominates the valley landscape, though to the north, near the base of the Satpuda, it yields progressively to forest growth, and in the south to barren grass lands with the approaches of the Ajanta ranges. The Northern Belt. North of the Tapi, the whole length of the rich alluvial plain is bounded by the steep southern face of the Satpuda, a belt of mountain land from twenty to thirty miles broad. boundary of the district is marked by the longitudinal depression of the Aner river and its eastern counterpart the Mamat tributary of the Suki river. These two longitudinal valleys separate the southern range of the Satpuda from their northern members. Much of this hill country, now with only a few scattered Bhil hamlets, was once well-peopled. At every few miles in the forests of Pal Tappa, there are ruins of villages. Further west, Amba, in the wide valleys of the Aner and the Arunavati, is dotted with the brushwood-covered ruins of the temples, mosques, wells, and upper-storeyed houses of what must once have been good-sized towns. The Southern Belt. South of the rich Tapi valley, the country is more varied than either in the centre or in the north. In the extreme east, the Purna valley, between the Hatti hills on the east and the rolling broken ground on the west, stretches south, much of it uncultivated or covered with brushwood. Further west, drained by the Vaghur, the Girna and the Bori, wide stony and thorny plains rise in low broad-topped basaltic ridges or sink in rich well- cultivated valleys. Hills Satpuda. Within Jalgaon limits are three chief hill ranges, the Satpuda in the north, the Hatti in the south-east, and the Ajanta or Satmala in the south. The Satpudas, a broad belt of mountain land, stretching in a wall-like line along the north bank of the Tapi, rise from the first range of hills, ridge behind ridge, to the central crest about 2,000 feet high, and then slope gently to the Narmada. Among the peaks that rise upper about 3,000 feet the chief are, in the east, Pancha Pandu and Mondhiamal looking down on Yawal. Hatti The Hatti hills bounding the Purna valley on the east, run north-west and south-east, and for about twenty miles pass through the south-east corner of Jalgaon. Rising gradually from the Tapi valley in their first twenty miles, they are rather low and tame. Further east, forming the northern frontier of Berar, they rise . to nearly 4,000 feet and finally merge in the Nagpur hills. At first bare and rocky, as they near the southern limit of Jalgaon, their sides are in places somewhat thickly covered with brushwood and timber and give shelter to wild beasts. Satmala. The Satmala, also known as the Chandor or Ajanta range, breaking off sharply from the Sahyadris in the north-west of Nasik, runs for about fifty miles east in a series of quaint basalt pinnacles and ridges. Near Manmad, after a gentle depression, it again rises about 600 feet above the plain, and forms a somewhat monotonous wall-like boundary between Jalgaon and the Deccan. Except for about fifteen miles in the west, actually pat-its limits, the range skirts the south of Jalgaon for about eighty miles. A few miles beyond Ajanta it turns south, merging into the highlands that form the southern frontier of the Berar districts. As it is a narrow range, little more than the steep northern face of the Deccan tableland, the Satmala contains few forest tracts. The sides, mostly bare or with a few scattered trees, have here and there strands large enough to shelter wild animals. Of late years, tillage has spread to the sides of many of the northern spurs, and in some places come close to the foot of the main range. Besides the picturesqueness of its western peaks, the chief interests in the Satmala range are the rock-cut Buddhist temples and monasteries at Ajanta, Patna, and Chandor. Within Jalgaon limits, besides several foot-paths, two roads cross the hills, one through the Ranjangaon pass near Chalisgaon and the other by the Ajanta pass above Fardapur. Spurs. To each of the three great hill ranges, the Satpudas on the north, the Satmala on the south, and the Sahyadris on the west which more properly lie in Dhulia, spurs rise from the plain for the most part at right angles to the main lines. Those emanating from the Satpudas in the north and the Satmala in the south, of no great height or length and as a rule with bare rounded sides and flat tops, are of little pictorial interest.

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