Which part of India has the Kalakot tertiary coal field ?

Which part of India has the Kalakot tertiary coal field ?

Brahmaputra river basin of Assam
Damodar river basin of Jharkhand and West Bengal
Himalayan mountain region
Cardamom hills in Kerala
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UPSC NDA-2 – 2017
The correct answer is C) Himalayan mountain region.
The Kalakot tertiary coal field is located in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, which is part of the Himalayan mountain region.
India has two main types of coal deposits: Gondwana coal (older, mainly in Damodar, Mahanadi, Godavari basins) and Tertiary coal (younger, mainly in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Jammu & Kashmir). The Kalakot field is one of the significant tertiary coal fields in India, found within the geologically young Himalayan belt.
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