Vohra, B. B. <br/><br/>
Natural resource management for poverty alleviation 

 - New Delhi  Rajiv Gandhi Foundations  1996 
 - 46 p. 
<br/><br/> India is among the poorest countries in the world. According to the World Bank's World Development Report 1995, it occupies the 113th place in a list of 132 countries arranged in order of per capita GNP. It is in the same leauge as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.<br/><br/>This is not a record to be proud of, not in the 50th year of our Independence. The nation's self-respect demands that its central problem of massive poverty should no longer be treated in a casual manner but given the importance and priority that it deserves.<br/><br/>This will in turn necessarily demand that we should pay the most serious attention to making the best possible use of our natural resources which constitute our basic productive infrastructure.<br/><br/>An attempt has been made in this paper to outline the present disarray in the field of resource management, to view it in its historical setting and to suggest how it may be possibly remedied before the point of no return is reached. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poverty alleviation
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.7 VOH