The paper aims to highlight the problems in achieving the goal of sustainable development in India as the one of the major cause of environmental degradation is poverty. This can be proved from the fact that whereas the aspect of right to life and liberty is interpreted in the west by the quality of air and water among other things, for the rest of the world, the very concept of right to life and liberty is related to the issue of the survival of large sections of population. The Indian environmental history is woven more intricately into social, agrarian, and cultural history. The relation between the government over management of natural resources and the spread of environmental awareness has changed tremendously over the years as people are now becoming more and more aware of the conditions of environment and the causes of its deterioration.
Poverty, sustainable development, environmental degradation, development
