WASTE LAND DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT - AN OVERVIEW WITH EMPHASIS ON STATUS OF GOA STATE, INDIAGokhale Chandrakant S., Nagarjuna Pilaka and Agarwal AnilAbstract About 40% population of India live in villages and depends on agriculture and forest. In the last 30 yearsthere is tremendous migration from rural to urban areas for employment and livelihood. This is not onlyputting extreme pressure on urban bodies but is also causing social conflicts and unrest. Thus, providingemployment and livelihood in rural area is getting prime attention of the Government. In this regard variousschemes are developed and implemented and they are showing the positive results. The wastelanddevelopment and management are one of the most important dimensions in this regard. Initially commonmethod employed by NWDS (National Waste Land Development Board) to recover wasteland was toadopt social forestry. The attention paid to convert wastelands in to social forests does not seems to haveachieved the intended goal, for in course of time newer areas turn into waste lands. Subsequently variousother elements are added to it. Earlier little technology was involved in implementing the wastelanddevelopment and management, however since a decade or so technology is driving such initiatives. Itappears plausible that the improper implementation of technology and not the technology may be thecause for the failure of waste land development in certain area or projects. This paper discusses variousaspects wasteland development and management initiatives in the country with emphasis on the wastelanddevelopment status in tiny, beautiful and silver jubilee (25thState of India) state of Goa. |