Despite being relatively stable tectonic region, frequency of landslides are progressively increasing in western ghats region. Justify (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
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Western ghats region has rare occurrence of earth quakes, lies away from the plate boundary region.
Frequency of landslides increasing
· Wherever landslides happened, there were granite quarries on the other side of the hill, according to government data on damages and a recent mapping of Kerala’s granite quarries.
· Although legal, these quarries were allowed to run despite running the risk of landslides; 10 out of the 11 pockets which witnessed major landslides, and where 91 quarries operated, were classified as ecologically sensitive zones and asked to be banned from mining and quarrying by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel, also known the Madhav Gadgil Committee in its report in 2011.
· 56% of the quarries are on fragile spots in the Western Ghats, making them prone to landslides
· In Malappuram district’s Kavalappara, which saw one of the two biggest damages in the rains as a landslide smashed down a hill submerging hundreds of houses in the valley, estimates point out to 27 quarries within a five km radius.
· In Wayanad’s Meppadi, the other major damage spot where 100 acres of a hilly tea estate were washed away in a landslide, estimates show at least one quarry was operating on the other side of the hill.
· Wayanad is probably the worst affected district in Kerala by unchecked quarrying and climate change.
· Massive constructions have destroyed the slope of the hills and changed the course of rivers. “
· “Behind every landslide, there is an unscientific change of crops, cutting off the slope of the hill, construction, and quarrying. The 2018 floods debate revolved around the huge rains and dam operations. But a third primary reason, ecological destruction of western ghats largely remain undebated.
Anu 5 years
Kindly review . Thank You
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about natural causes for landslides, rare occurrence of Earth quakes in Western ghats region for it's tectonic stability. Keep writing.
sahithya 5 years
Kindly review. Thank you.
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about natural causes, rare occurrence of Earth quake in Western ghats region. Keep writing.
kanala saddam hussain 5 years
please review.
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to include about rare occurrence of Earth quake in Western ghats region, mention about Kasturirangan committee report, Gadgil report. Keep writing.
Krish 5 years
Kindly review sir,Thank u
IAS Parliament 5 years
Good answer.Try to stick to word limit. Keep writing.
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