Inclusive and Sustainable Development in India vs. Environmental Protection: Issues, Challenges and Solutions

Abstract

Today, due to environmental destruction, a serious threat has arisen not only to the existence of mankind but also to the existence of the entire biological community. The way, in which the natural resources of the earth are being over-exploited behind the blind race of development, the existence of the coming generations has started to appear in danger. Natural resources are getting scarce to meet the needs of the ever-increasing population. Increasing pollution and climate change have made the problem even more serious. In this situation, the concept of sustainable and inclusive development has rendered the importance of environmental protection and alerted mankind to think in this direction and take necessary steps. Indian literature and culture have always been spreading the message of co-living with the environment, but as soon as we changed our life values under the influence of westernization, we brought an environmental crisis at our doorstep. Today, our country has chosen such a model of development in which there is neither any concern for environmental protection nor any sympathy for the coming generations. For not only India but the entire world to move forward in the direction of sustainable development, Bapu has to inculcate in his mind that this earth can fulfill the needs of man but not his desires.