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Man lives in nature and depends on the resources of nature. The sustenance and welfare of mankind depend upon the exploitation of different natural resources. The utilization of soil, water minerals, coal, electricity, oil, gas and nuclear energy is very important for the development of nation These resources have changed the level of living standard of man. One of the most serious aspects of the problem arises from the impact of economic efforts of mankind especially for the purpose of maintaining its existence, protection, survival and betterment of the standard of living. The basic needs which induced the human beings to spoil the natural resources for their welfare have finally led to a situation which threatens to be disastrous. There has been a tremendous increase in India’s population and it has now crossed 103 crores (1.03 billion). The National Commission on Agriculture is giving serious thought to the problem of deforestation and has recommended introduction of “Social Forestry”, i.e., to create multipurpose village wood lots in rural India.

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