The term ‘wasteland’ is essentially understood as degraded land which is currently under-utilized and or land which is deteriorating for lack of appropriate water and soil management or on account of natural causes. Wasteland can be the resulted form of inherent or imposed disabilities such as by location, environment, chemical and physical properties of the soil or financial or management constraints (Wastelands Atlas, 2010). Thus, it is a humble effort to identify the principal factors responsible for the formation of wastelands over the 10 Gram Panchayats of Khoyrasole Block in Birbhum District, West Bengal.