Safeguarding environment

It was during Indira Gandhi's tenure as Prime Minister of India that environment, with all its attendant concerns, developed as a pivotal new area of studies, planning and action at government and public levels all over the world. It was, again, her deep understanding and involvement in these concerns that her ideas and policies provided the right guidelines not only for India but all other Third World and similarly placed countries.

Now, after she is no more and things everywhere have started moving in a big way, it is imperative for all those working in these and related areas, to carefully peruse and grasp whatever she said on these matters on various occasions. It is with this view that suitably edited material culled out of her major speeches delivered at national and international gatherings is being published here in book form.

The book covers all issues concerning en vironment, such as ecology, conservation, develop ment, population control, pollution, energy, waste management and recycling, food, fuel and water, social forestry, wildlife, genetic engineering, ocean development, poverty, peace, people's involve ment, and related aspects of science and techno logy. It is a complete book in every respect on the subject.

The book serves the purpose of a primer on environment wherever the subject is taught or dealt with, including schools and colleges where it is fast becoming a part of the syllabus, and institutes specially devoted to its study.