Give geographical reasons : Mining is developed in the Chota Nagpur Plateau in India.

Answer: The Chota Nagpur Plateau is made of ancient rocks that are very rich in minerals, so mining has developed there on a large scale.

• The plateau, spread over Jharkhand and parts of Odisha, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, is made of old igneous and metamorphic rocks and Gondwana formations.
• It has large deposits of coal (Jharia, Bokaro, Giridih, Karanpura), iron ore, manganese, bauxite, mica, copper, limestone and uranium. It is therefore called the 'mineral heartland' or 'storehouse of minerals' of India.
• The availability of cheap labour, rail links to ports like Kolkata and Haldia, and demand from nearby iron and steel plants (Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Durgapur, Rourkela) have encouraged mining.