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The sand mining has several impacts on the river environment. Sand mining disturbs and completely remove the habitat from the mined zones. It leads to changes in its channel form, physical habitats and food webs - the river's ecosystem. It also increases the velocity of flow in river which destroy flow-regime eventually erodes the river banks. Sand mining and exposure to toxic material through riverrine is an increasingly serious problem the world over. The unscientific use of hazardous materials in mining industries and its dumping has created a great risk for human life, plants and animals. In This Study, Plant Eclipta alba and soil samples were analyzed to determine the heavy metals (Lead, Cadmium & Arsenic) Three Samples of Plant Bhringaraja (Eclipta alba) and Soil were collected from the Karwi District of Chitrakoot (U.P.) & Rajapur (U.P.) (i.e. near the riverline and less polluted area) and the one sample of Plant and soil from natural Habitat with very minimum pollution forest area across Chitrakoot region. The extent of soil contamination by heavy metals and the potentials of herbaceous plant species to remediate the soils at a selected mining site were assessed. Physico Chemical studies were carried out as per Standard Protocol and heavy metals were analyzed using SOP.