ABSTRACT
Coal is contaminated with potentially hazardous elements (i.e. arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), etc.) at significant levels, and on burning they are distributed in the environment (Valkovic 1983). Their overuses causes contamination of the environment with the toxic metals (Agarwal et al. 2010). The most of electricity in central India is generated by coal based thermal power plants. In the present work, As and other heavy metal contamination of the soil and plant in the huge coal burning area, Korba city (22° 21′ 0″ N & 82° 40′ 48″ E), India are described.
