Communitise natural resource management

PRIME Minister P V Narasimha Rao's government has taken dramatic steps in less than a year of its existence towards a liberalised regime for the industrial sector. If the new policies indeed lead to increased economic activity, there will be greater pressures operating on the natural environment. Given India's people, almost every ecological space within the country is being used by different occupational groups for their survival. There are no virgin lands left to exploit. Ecological destruction has,

Why this magazine?

THIS magazine is not the product of a desire to capture a share of the information market. It is the product of a need that we feel within us, of a desire to fill a critical information gap. In the years ahead, India will have to seize every possible opportunity to grow and develop and at the same time it will have to make a bold effort to hold on to its soil and roots. This task is not going to be easy.