local government

Huge amounts of public money are spent on Dams. Critics feel that the net benefits to the people and society are not proportionate and lopsided favouring urban industrial and government priorities, generation of power and irrigation at the expense of local people in the dam be..

. The use of this stored water was strictly regulated and the optimum cropping patterns based on the water availability were arrived at on the basis of decades/centuries of experience. The maintenance of these irrigation systems was also a local affair. These mega-projects led to the negl..

India has about 63.5% million hectares of forests and forms 1/5 th of the geographical area of the country. For any one stake holder namely the forest department, to safeguard the forests and its flora and fauna along with the sustainable harvest of forest produce by solely its own effort is ext..

Natural resources that are limited in nature and are liable to be degraded in quantity and quality by human activities are exhaustible natural resources. Examples are forests, soil, wild animals, minerals, fossil fuels etc. The understanding of the environment and its proper conservation, has gain..

. As a result large scale soil erosion and local climate change have occurred. Air pollution due to automobile exhausts and industrial emission levels has caused green house gases to rise and cause global warming. All these have combined to deplete and endanger some of our most valuable n..

. It causes an increase of the earth's temperature. Remember : If the temperature of the earth's atmosphere gradually rises it will result in melting of the polar ice, and cause the sea level to rise, which, in turn, will result in the flooding of all low lying areas, especially along the sea coast..