DEGRADATION : A CASE STUDY OF MUSI RIVER                             

                                                                                                                                                             Muthyam Reddy Katta.         

Development is usually seen in terms of quantitative parameters like number of industries, volume of production, level of technology, number of jobs proveided and per capita income. But, What is ignored in this  perception of development is its impact on natural resources like soil, water bodies, green cover including forest, air and biological species.            However, in recect times our planners have begun to realise how the environment has been neglected in the development strategy hitherto in practice. In the Eighth Five Year plan Document, the Government of India admits, “Much of the water resources and air in the country continue to be polluted affecting human health. Besides traditional domestic pollutants, there is increasing contamination by chemicals, heavy metals and other toxic substances which are thrown in the river and this is due to careless industrial and agricultural practices.        

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Dr. R. V. Ramana Murthy

Dr. K. Muthyam Reddy 

Sustainable Development:

      The post-War optimism on unhindered economic growth was challenged by the report published by Club of Rome in 1972, written by Meadow et al, titled Limits to Growth, which held that the economic growth could be constrained by the depletion of natural resources. But the experience of next two decades proved that not only such Malthusian fears are farfetched, the economic system has demonstrated its ability to conserve the resource-use by raising its efficiency and also to adapt itself to changing conditions. However, by mid eighties, it is realised that, if not the resource depletion, it is the ability of ecological system to absorb the hazardous waste left over by the developmental activity, that is going to pose a formidable limit to the economic growth. The World commission’s report on Environment and Development, known as Brundtland Commission report (1987), titled Our common Future, thus defined the concept of sustainable development as `to ensure that development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. The ecological system is not only the source for natural resources, but a repository of wastes generated by human activity. The rate at which ecological damage is wrought by the modern development has proved that not only the benefits of development will be neutralised, but also it can inflict a lasting damage deeper enough that it may not be restored in the near future. The ozone layer depletion, global warming, and raising sea levels are the visible symptoms of the gathering crisis  [Hodge (1995)]¹. Unless a conscious and well planned sustainable development strategy is adopted, the fruits of urban industrial model of development can only be ephemeral.

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To:  Governor Missouri, Rolla/Missouri Mayor, Attorney General Missouri, Indian Ambassador to USA/Washington DC, Attorney General USA. Dear Sir/Madam, We would like to bring to your notice Sujith Venkatramolla’s current legal situation and request you, as a member of the Indian Community, to assist us in presenting his case so as to plead for a minimal sentence. It is heart-moving story; a diligent Gold medallist student is behind bars in the
USA for an act he never imagined he would do in his lifetime. Like most other immigrants who make their way to the United States, Sujith had dreamed of living the “American dream”, going to the extent of borrowing a great deal of money to make his dream possible. But his dreams and his future have now been shattered by this one unfortunate incident. (ఇంకా…)