The main aim of the watershed management strategy of India is to maintain the ecological balance by harnessing, conserving and developing degraded natural resources such as soil.
The Central Himalayas encompasses the areas with the highest topographic relief. The Central Himalayas is again separated into four zones:The High Himalayan Crystalline Sequence (HHCS)The Tethys Himalaya (TH)The Nyimaling-Tso Morari Metamorphic Dome (NTMD)The Lamayuru and Markha Units (LMU)
North-Eastern Zonal Council has eight states viz, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Assam. Taking states and UTs together, the Northern zonal council has the maximum number of states and UT.
Odhisha is the largest manganese producing state of India. Odhisha’s manganese reserves constitute 44% of the total reserves and produces 37% of the total manganese ore in India.
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