30% of the land in India is getting degraded: ISRO study

a) As per a recent report released by ISRO, 30% of India's geographical land is under land degradation. The study was carried out using data from satellite images. b) The degrading area has increased over 0.5 per cent to 29.3 million hectares during the period. c) There was high desertification and degradation in Delhi, Tripura, Nagaland, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram, while Odisha, Telangana,

Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh showed some improvement. d) ISRO's Space Applications Centre released the findings last month in the form of a 'Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas', combining GIS and remote sensing data. e) The states where high amount of land is degraded are, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.