Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation in India

Today, the urge for economic development has become essential both in developed and developing economies. Developed economies undertake developmental programmes to maintain their rate of economic growth so as to enjoy still higher standards of living and avoid risk of cyclical fluctuations while developing economies emphasize on economic development not only for solving their basic problems of poverty, unemployment, ignorance, backwardness, low productivity etc. but also to touch the level of economic progress which has already been achieved by the rich countries.