Spatio Temporal Variation of Air Pollutants in the North East Coalfield areas under Indian Coal Mines

Abstract

This is a part of the project which developed an Information & Communication Technology based software application tool focused and addressing the issues related with the preparation of Environmental Monitoring Report and Environmental Management Plan in North-Eastern Coalfields under Coal India Limited. It addressed mine water treatment with cost analysis, Overburden Dump Management along with the parameters of Air, Water, Effluent Water, and Soil. This user friendly software tool enabled with GIS or Geographical Information System.The present paper dealt with the air pollution and its variations in a spatio-temporal scenario. In a highly vegetation domain which covered not only by forests but also wild life and tea gardens, air pollution played a pivotal role in maintaining the ecological balance, specially for micro organisms. Therefore the work opened a broad scope of research from air pollution to micro organism balance in an eco sensitive region.