CHANCES FOR COMMERCIAL PLANNED PLANTATION IN NANDED DISTRICT

Neem is the most versatile, multifarious tree with immense potential. However in the study area there is no utilization of Neem in medicinal, industrial or agricultural industry, although there is wild growth of Neem tree in the study area. The study finds out the multifarious uses of Neem along with the potential areas for commercial Neem plantation. Exact demarcation of land pertaining to possible sites of Neem commercial cultivation has been done keeping in view the already existence of wild growing Neem in those areas. The study also finds out the possible reasons for known development of Neem based industry in the study area, though this kind of industry is quite developed in India and at the same time money churning

E-W strike slip shearing of Kinwat granitoid at South East Deccan Volcanic Province, Kinwat, Maharashtra, India

We study the margin of South East Deccan Volcanic Province around Kinwat lineament, Maharashtra, India, which is NW extension of the Kaddam Fault. Structural field studies document similar to E-W strike-slip mostly brittle faults from the basement granite. We designate this as ` Western boundary East Dharwar Craton Strike-slip Zone' (WBEDCSZ). At local level, the deformation regime from Kinwat, Kaddam Fault, micro-seismically active Nanded and seismically active Killari corroborate with the nearby lineaments. Morphometric analyses suggest that the region is moderately tectonically active. The region of intense strike-slip deformation lies between seismically active fault along Tapi in NW and Bhadrachalam in the SE part of the Kaddam Fault/lineament. The WBEDCSZ with the surface evidences of faulting, presence of a major lineaments and intersection of faults could be a zone of intraplate earthquake