Vijay's Vision

-*Dr. S. Vijay Kumar Here a State means, a Welfare State  that is a  government where it plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens. It is based on the principles of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for those unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. The general term may cover a variety of forms of e conomic and social organization. There are two main interpretations of the idea of a state: A model in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. This responsibility in theory ought to be comprehensive, because all aspects of welfare are considered and universally applied to citizens as a "right". State can also mean the creation of a "social safety net" of minimum standa rds of varying forms of welfare. In the strictest sense, a state is a government that provides for the wel

                                                           -Dr. S. Vijay Kumar              In 1983, the United Nations set up the World Commission on Environment and Development called 'the Brundtland Commission' to examine the problems related to this area. The Commission in its report entitled "Our Common Future" published in 1987, used and defined this concept of sustainable development for the first time by Ms. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the then Prime Minister of Norway and the chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) as “Meeting the needs of present generation without compromising with the needs of future generations.” This report insists on the need to protect the diversity of genes, species, and all terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in nature. This is possible in particular via measures to protect the quality of the environment, and by the restoration, development, and maintenance of habitats that are essential to species. This

                                                                                  ( ABSTRACT)                        Sustainable Land Use in Indian Agriculture  – Challenges  and Issues                                                                – A Way   Forward                                                                                                                                                                                                                   We all know that the supply land is perfectly inelastic (fixed) in relation to its demand. Hence, it must be used judiciously. Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in this world. The way people handle and use land resources impacts their social and economic life as well as the sustained quality of land resources. The growing development, increasing population, urbanization and industrialization is increasing pressure on land resource. Due to unplanned and haph