Tamil Nadu today is
ranked among India’s most ‘developed’ states. Increasingly
urbanised, it has a growing service sector in the cities, and is a
proud leader in healthcare and information technology. And yet, the
same state is plagued by one of the country’s highest levels of
malnutrition, rising unemployment and severe social stress that
results, among other consequences, in the highest rate of suicide
among young adults. Less and less of the once fertile land is
available for agriculture, and farming, particularly of food crops,
is in decline. Rapidly shrinking natural resources, environmental
degradation, climate change, increasing dependence on global markets,
and rising living costs, all contribute to this challenging
situation.
Sustainability,
the need of the hour
2015 marks the 20th
anniversary of the Rio Conference, and in December – just a year
away – the global leaders will congregate in Paris, France, to try
to agree on ‘Sustainable Developm...
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