Short Notes on Thinly Populated Areas of India

Short Notes on Thinly Populated Areas of India

The following areas of India are thinly populated:

(i) Kuchchh and West Rajasthan. The soil of the area is sandy; farming is done on a particular area only. There is sparse, scarce rainfall in Thar Desert of Rajasthan. Hence, farming has been impossible due to the irregular supply of water. The other cause of thin population is the lack of employment opportunities.

(ii)The other thinly populated areas are the adjoining parts of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan and Tibet border, Himachal Pradesh, Kumaun hills of Uttar Pradesh, Northern Sikkim, etc. The land of these areas is haphazard and rough. It is not capable of supplying food grains to a large number of people.

(iii) The third thinly populated area includes Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Central- Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. These areas are very sparsely populated, due to hilly terrain, heavy rainfall and thick forests.