Geography - Master Dissertation

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    Analysing The Impact Of Sand Mining On The Flow Of Tawi River, Jammu And Kashmir
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Salgotra, Vishabh; GUITE, L.T. SASANG
    The river Tawi in Jammu and Kashmir faces indiscriminate sand mining practice where large amount of sand is being mined from the river bed between Nagrota and Sidhra area. The increasing pace of urbanization and associated developments in Jammu City and nearby areas are responsible for this practice. The mining activity in Tawi river involves massive digging of river bed materials upto 3-4 mts depth with the help of heavy duty excavators used by the mining contractors, whereas, the Geology and Mining Department gave the permission to extract the materials up to 3 mts depth. Moreover, the sand mining has impacted the flow of river Tawi particularly between Nagrota and Sidhra. In this study, the locations of sand mining sites in Tawi river between Nagrota and Sidhra are mapped from 2007 to 2018 and an attempt made to analyse the possible impact of sand mining on the flow of river. The mapping is done by using GIS technique and a field visit is also carried out for acquiring the coordinates and photographs of present sand mining sites in river Tawi
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    Mapping of Surface Water Bodies in Punjab and High Resolution of Remote Sensing Data
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Ahmed, Mukhtar; Singh, Kiran K.
    This study is an attempt to create boundary of Punjab state and surface water bodies map from NATMO atlas map, SOI map, Landsat-8 data and Google Earth image using GIS software. It has also compared the variation in status which is extracted from the data or image of various scale or resolution. According to NATMO data, the water bodies in Punjab are 1476. 109km2 (excluding canals), according to Landsat-8 are 2844.55 km2 (including canals), according to SOI are 764.93 km2 and according to Google earth are 141.06 km2. Variation in the status of the area and length of surface water bodies is due to the scale and resolution of images. High resolution image is capable of creating precise boundaries. The purpose of this study was to create precise boundaries of the state and water bodies. Management of water bodies calls for generation of multiple inventories and demarcation of precise boundary is one of the inventories. This study also suggests the Map making organisations to revise their maps by using recent geospatial technologies.
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    Mapping of Granite and Marble Slurry sites of Rajasthan
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Singh, Ravindra; Singh K. Kiran
    Rajasthan is known as Museum of minerals in India. It owns 79 different types of Major and Minor minerals. It shares 9% of the mineral production in India. Mining and smelting of its base metal deposits are also one of the oldest in the world dating back to more than 2,500 years before present. Rajasthan is also Known for its decorative stones; Marble and Granite. Marble has been mined here for last 400 year. Taj Mahal & Victoria palace is built by Rajasthani Marble. But nowadays Rajasthan is paying the heavy price of stone mining & processing. The waste generated from Mining and processing from conventional techniques is very high & sometimes it is up to 70% of the total mined block. The waste remains in the form of odd blocks, unshaped rock fragments, Krazzy and stone slurry. All the other waste except the slurry can be used directly for various purpose. The slurry causes different pollution like air pollution, land pollution, water pollution and visibility pollution when it is dumped unscientifically. There are 7 Tehsils of Rajasthan which are affected by this problem. In this study, the locations of the Slurry dumping sites (both scientific & unscientific) has mapped & the total area which falls under the slurry site is calculated. Though this mapping is conducted with simple techniques but the study will help in prepare a data inventory of these pollutant slurry sites. It can be further used in Site suitability analysis of the slurry sites.