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River and its tributaries plays a pivotal role in agricultural activities supplying water needed for cultivations and other agro based activities. Nagaland being an agricultural economy depends mainly on the seasonal monsoon for cultivations and therefore in times of natural calamities as drought, shortage of monsoon rain; water from the rivers provides an alternative measures for cultivation but over the period, due to an excessive mining in the rivers for an extraction of stones and sands. The level of water bodies in the river has drastically lower and there is a huge proportionate decline in level of soil affecting the natural distribution of water to the field for cultivations. The deputy commissioner of Dimapur district has issued the directives prohibiting the riverbed mining in the district of Dimapur however, the mining in the village areas inhabiting nearby the rivers are rampant despite the ban and prohibition of mining imposed by the district administration. Natural resources as stones pose a danger of depletion. The construction of dam harms the natural vegetation, flora and fauna and therefore this need to be addressed, and measures need to be taken up to combat and stabilized this rampant mining and depletion of natural resources.