Question
Download Solution PDFWhich of the following states has the highest coal reserve?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Jharkhand.
Key Points
- Jharkhand has the largest reserves of coal in India followed by Odisha and Chhattisgarh.
- The Coal Resources of India:
- It is mainly available in older Gondwana Formations of peninsular India and younger Tertiary formations of the north-eastern region.
- About 80 per cent of the coal deposits in India are of the bituminous type and are of non-coking grade.
- The most important Gondwana coal fields of India are located in Damodar Valley.
- They lie in the Jharkhand-Bengal coal belt and the important coalfields in this region are Raniganj, Jharia, Bokaro, Giridih, and Karanpura.
Jharia is the largest coalfield followed by Raniganj. - The other river valleys associated with coal are the Godavari, Mahanadi, and Sone.
- The most important coal-mining centre is Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh (part of Singrauli coalfield lies in Uttar Pradesh), Korba in Chhattisgarh, Talcher, and Rampur in Odisha, Chanda-Wardha, Kamptee, and Bander in Maharashtra, and Singareni in Telangana and Pandur in Andhra Pradesh.
- Tertiary coals occur in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, and Nagaland. It is extracted from Darangiri, Cherrapunji, Mewlong, and Langrin (Meghalaya); Makum, Jaipur, and Nazira in upper Assam, Namchik - Namphuk (Arunachal Pradesh), and Kalakot (Jammu and Kashmir).
- The lignite reserves stand at a level of around 36 billion tons, of which 90 % occur in the southern State of Tamil Nadu.
Additional Information
- The map depicting the highest coal reserve:
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