{"id":65246,"date":"2025-09-26T12:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65246"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:53:53","slug":"mahendragiri-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mahendragiri-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahendragiri Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Mahendragiri Hills Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, environmentalists warn of unchecked tourism projects in Odisha\u2019s Mahendragiri hills<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Mahendragiri Hills<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the <\/span><b>Gajapati district of Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the middle of Eastern Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was declared as a <\/span><b>Biodiversity Heritage Site in 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to its rich flora and fauna.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of an almost unbroken chain of hills between the <\/span><b>Mahanadi and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/godavari-river-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">Godavari<\/a> rivers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated amongst the Eastern Ghats at an elevation <\/span><b>of 1,501 metres above sea level.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tribal Communities: It is home to the <\/span><b>Saora (Saura) and Kondh tribes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Biodiversity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It supports 1,348 species of plants and 388 species of animals, many of them endemic and threatened.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The major river in the <\/span><b>area is the Mahendra Tanaya,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> originating from the hill top of Mahendragiri.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Vegetation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The vegetation of the region is marked with the presence of <\/span><b>tropical dry and wet deciduous forest range<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal rock types of the hill range are <\/span><b>granite, charnokite, khondalite<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with intrusive veins of chert, chalcedony, quartz of both crystalline and opec forms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site also attracts pilgrims to its <\/span><b>Panchpandava temples.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/environment\/environmentalists-flag-unchecked-tourism-push-in-ecologically-sensitive-mahendragiri-hills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahendragiri Hills It is located in the Gajapati district of Odisha in the middle of Eastern Ghats. 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