CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT TO INDIA

Abstract

The one of the most urgent and buzzing word from the perspective of environment is ‘sustainable development’. Sustainable development signifies a balance development of environmental protection and that of the economy. But the biggest dilemma of present world is the challenges for faster economic growth, which is directly linked to climate change. The increasing demand of food, energy and mineral resources lead to huge consumption of natural resources and introduction of different technologies which leads to exponential rise in Carbon dioxide .As we know, every action of now will determine the climate of next 15-20 year. So, my purpose of this study is to focus on the major challenges to sustainable development narrowing scope to India.
In the global context some major challenges to sustainable development are eradicating the extent of poverty, promoting sustainable consumption and production, managing the planet’s natural resource base for the benefit of the all sections of society. There are some serious challenges in context to particularly India are-defining indicator, financing sustainable development goals (SDGs), monitoring and ownership, measuring progress etc. A number of measures are initiated by the Government of India for maintaining sustainable development like-agenda 30, SDGs and MDGs, NITI AAYOG, schemes like -make in India, digital India, Jan dhan Yojana, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan etc. But sustainable development requires everyone’s effort to involve in achieving for a historic change in the global level to deliver inclusive growth, climate change and reduction of the risk of climate change. India is the one of the fastest growing economy of the world. But here, growth is not sustainable, it is competitive in nature. Sustainable development maintains complementary relation between human development and economic growth. So, for sustainable development there must be a positive relation between social, economic and environmental development.