The National Wastelands Identification Project (NWIP)

[WASTELAND MAP]

The National Wastelands Identification Project (NWIP) was initiated in collaboration with the National Remote Sensing Agency and the Survey of India to prepare district-wise wastelands maps on 1:50,000 scale by using satellite data. Wastelands maps for 146 districts have been prepared and distributed to the concerned State and district level agencies. Maps for 91 districts are under preparation. Selection of these districts is based on the criterion that 5% or more of the geographical area of these districts is estimated to be wastelands.

Waste Land Vs Geographical Area of each state of India is being compiled using the following components :

Guillied & or Ravinous Land
Upland with or without Scrub
Water Logged & Marshy Land
Land affected by Salinity/Alkanity-Coastal/Inland
Under Utilized Degraded Notified Forest Land
Shifting Cultivation Area
Degraded Land Under Plantation Crops
Degraded Pastures/ Grazing Land
Mining Industrial Wastelands
Sands-Desertic Coastal
Steep Slopping Area
Barren Rocky/Stony Waste/Sheet Rocky Area
Snow Covered and or Glacial Area

The existing district-wise Waste Land data is presented for the following States of India :

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