Portraying Societal-Geomorphology of a tribal District:NorthwestOdisha; A review
Abstract:
Sundergarh is a tribal district, and areawise the 2nd largest in Odisha housed in the northwestern plateau climatic zone. The land of aboriginals, minings, coal deposits, forests, and mountainous topography, Mayurbhanj Odisha emerged to be a Role Model at present. Among the development the forests, extreme events, environment, and water resources are neglected. There is a need to plan for all the neglected sectors.The methodologies applied are searching past literature, visiting the site, downloading image data from satellite imagery, visual interpretation, and imageclassification. The Arc GIS and ERDAS software have been used for image processing and preparation of hill shed, stream, slope, aspect, and contour map of the district. The hitches in various sectors like Water Resources, Mining, forest, climate changes, aboriginals, migration, and glitches in the social sector areanalyzed. Several townships, mines, and industries have developed at the cost of forests, fertility of the soil, tranquil water, and societal values of the district.Negotiating the demand vs. availability, a strategic plan for the district has been prepared giving weightage to the geo-bio-hydro environment, and sociological and economic factors under the pedagogy of per drop-more crop.