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Illegal mining costed which state in India to suffer huge revenue losses, environmental pollution, malaria and some unknown diseases and many more problems for a few years now -

  1. Orissa

  2. Andhra Pradesh

  3. Karnataka

  4. Madhya Pradesh
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Orissa (now Odisha) suffered extensively from illegal mining operations, particularly in the Keonjhar and Sundargarh districts. The state lost massive revenue due to unauthorized extraction, while environmental degradation led to water pollution, deforestation, and increased malaria transmission from mining pits creating mosquito breeding grounds.

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