Test: Planning & Sustainable Development In Indian Context - 2 - Humanities/Arts MCQ

Warabandi is a system of equitable water distribution by turns according to a predetermined schedule specifying the day, time and duration of supply to each irrigation in proportion to holdings in the outlet command.

Human beings interact with their physical environment with the help of technology. The processes of human environment interaction depend upon the level of technology and institutions nurtured by a society.

The Irrigation Commission (1972) introduced the criterion of 30 per cent irrigated area and demarcated the drought-prone areas,

A number of development programmes, policies and projects have been introduced to improve the well-being of tribal people.

It covers an area 600 Km long and 45 Km wide of the Thar Desert in North West of Rajasthan.

Due to political turmoil at the centre as well as the global economic changes and fiscal imbalances of the country in late 80’s the Eighth plan could not take off.

The developmental process is viewed as change within a complex dynamic system.

This programme was initiated during the Fourth Five Year Plan with the objectives of providing employment to the people in drought-prone areas and creating productive assets to mitigate the effects of droughts.

Regional planning is related to urban planning as it relates land use practices on a broader scale.

The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources. Meadows states that Limits to Growth has had a significant impact on the conception of environmental issues and notes I that the models in the book were meant to be taken as predictions “Only in the most limited I sense of the World”.

Sustainable development is defined as an approach to developing or growing by using resources in a way that allows for them to renew or continue to exist for others.

The book predicted that there J will be a disaster for humanity due to overpopulation. 10 million people will be starving during each of the years in the 1970s.

Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures.

Conceived by Kanwar Sain in 1948, the canal project was launched on 31st March, 1958.