| Question | What is meant by sustainable development? Discuss briefly any two strategies of sustainable development. |
| Chapter | Environment and Sustainable Development |
| Class | Class 12 |
| Subject | Economics (Indian Economic Development) |
| Category | Indian Economic Development Class 12 Sandeep Garg Solutions |
Question – What is meant by sustainable development? Discuss briefly any two strategies of sustainable development.
Answer –
According to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, “Sustainable development refers to development that sustains over a long period and meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generation to meet their own needs.”
Sustainable development aims at fulfilling the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of the future generation.
Strategies of sustainable development
1.Establishing/ setting up mini-hydel plants
In mountain regions, streams can be found almost everywhere. Most of such streams are perpetual or perennial or flow all the year round Mini hydel plants are set up to use the energy of such streams to move small turbines for producing electricity/ power.
Such power plants are eco-friendly as they do not change land-use patterns or do not interfere natural flow of water and generate enough electrical power to meet local demand.
Besides it, They do not need large-scale transmission towers and cables and avoid transmission loss.
2.Use of cleaner fuel in both rural and urban areas
In rural areas, households generally use wood, cow dung, and other biomass as fuel. These practices/consumption of fuel have several adverse impacts like deforestation, reduction in green cover, wastage of cattle dung and air pollution, etc.
To overcome this problem, LPG and gobar gas are being promoted. Subsidized LPG is being provided and gobar gas plants are being encouraged through easy loans and subsidies. These are eco-friendly and cleaner fuels and help in reducing pollution to a large extent.
In urban areas, the Indian transport system is based on petroleum products which emit huge carbon dioxide and pollute the environment. The use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in place of petrol and diesel as environmentally friendly and cleaner fuel has substantially reduced the level of air pollution.
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