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Development of

Resources, its Planning &

Suryaveer Singh

PGT GeographyS D Public School, Pitampura

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Human beings haveused resourcesindiscriminately andthis has led to the

Depletion of resource:

Rich and Poor

Global crisis

Depletion of resources forsatisfying the greed of fewindividuals.

Accumulation of resources in

few hands, which, in turn,divided the society into twosegments i.e. haves and havenots or rich and poor.

Indiscriminate exploitation ofresources has led to globalecological crisis such as, globalwarming, ozone layerdepletion, environmentalpollution and land degradation.

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The Big question is what should we

Its Answer lies in Resource planning.

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What is Resourceplanning? Why its

Sustainable

existence

Globalpeace

Happy faces

Resource planning is a

strategy for judicious use ofresources

Its necessary because: -

First to minimize the abovethree problems of depletion,

accumulation and globalecological crisis.

Second for an equitabledistribution of resources.

Third for a sustained qualityof life and global peace.

Fourth If the present trend of

resource depletion by a fewindividuals and countriescontinues, the future of ourplanet is in danger.

Fifth it is essential forsustainable existence of all

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Why it is needed inIndia?

1. Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and MadhyaPradesh rich inminerals

coal deposits

2. Arunachal Pradesh has abundantWater resources but lacks

infrastructural development.

3. Rajasthan hassolar and wind energy

but lacks

water resources.

4. The cold desert of Ladakh has very richcultural heritage but lacks

water & minerals

Rich diversity in the

availability of resources.

There are regions which arerich in certain types ofresources but are deficient in

some other resources.

There are some regions whichcan be considered selfsufficient in terms of theavailability of resources and

there are some regions whichhave acute shortage of somevital resources.

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Resource Planningin India

Survey & Mapping

Resourcesat 1

Technology & skills

National Plans

Resource planning involves:B. Identification and

inventory of resourcesacross the regions of thecountry. This involvessurveying, mapping andqualitative and quantitativeestimation andmeasurement of theresources.

C. Evolving a planningstructure endowed withappropriate technology,skill and institutional set upfor implementing resource

development plans.D. Matching the resource

development plans withoverall nationaldevelopment plans.

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Factors on which thedevelopment of resourcesdepends

The availability of resources is a necessary condition for the development of any region .

Higher level of technological development helps in exploitation of resources .

Quality of human resources and the historical experiences of the people also helps in theprocess of development.

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Gandhiji view onConservation ofResources

Irrational consumption and over-utilisation of

There is enough foreverybodys need and notfor any bodys greed.

He placed the greedy andselfish individuals andexploitative nature of modern

technology as the root causefor resource depletion at theglobal level.

He was against massproduction and wanted toreplace it with the productionby the masses.

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We live on land, we perform our alleconomic activities on land and use it

Therefore in the next module we will discuss LandResources with our country.