In the mining industry in India, a trend has emerged for the adoption of advance technologies intended for maximum extraction of mineral resources, to fulfill the developmental needs. As a result, they have achieved very high production rate and huge profit margin. The most fitting example is the shift in the technology of coal production from relatively safer underground to highly damaging open cast (surface) mining. Unfortunately, most of the technological enhancement has taken place in production technologies without any concern for ecology and environment. This resulted in severe ecological problems such as loss of our precious prime agriculture land, forest cover, water regime, air quality and biodiversity. With the rising global environmental awareness, the concept of sustainability started gaining popularity.