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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Aravallis broken beyond repair -Jitendra & Shagun Kapil

Aravallis broken beyond repair -Jitendra & Shagun Kapil

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published Published on Apr 9, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 9, 2019
-Down to Earth

Illegal mining has ravaged the mountain range in the past few decades. Down To Earth investigates the loss and traces the legal developments in Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi

Abdal khan is a prisoner of geography. A resident of Nimli village in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, Khan, who claims to be over 100 years old, is mostly bedridden in his home nestled in the foothills of the Aravallis. He stays quiet most of the time, but a mention of the Aravallis triggers an outburst. “I have accompanied British officials on hunting tours on these hills. Where we are sitting now was once a thick forest,” he says. There are only a few like him alive, who can remember the once ecologically rich Aravallis and also witnessed its gradual demise. His youngest daughter, Dini Bi, who is half his age, lives some 50 km north in Banban village of the same district, also located in the mountain range, which has almost disappeared. While Khan laments the loss of forests, his daughter is not so mournful. “It was good when the mountain was there. But mining gave us jobs,” she says.

This is the chronology of the dying Aravallis. Within one generation, millions who once found it the axis of their sustenance, are now reconciled to the loss of one of the planet’s oldest physical features. This despite the fact that village after village have reported changes in the local ecology after the mountain range’s degradation, with significant impact on the people’s lives.

The account of Khan is a telling comment on the degradation the Aravallis due to mining. Though the Supreme Court banned mining in the range in 2002, unless cleared by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), illegal mining has continued, sometimes on a scale even larger than that of legal mining operations. A 2018 report by Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) says that 25 per cent of the Aravalli range has been lost due to illegal mining in Rajasthan since 1967-68 and over 10,300 hectares (ha) have been affected outside the lease boundary in the 15 districts where 80 per cent of the Aravallis are located.

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Down to Earth, 9 April, 2019, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/mining/aravallis-broken-beyond-repair-63812


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