Question

“Recently Indians have drifted away from the traditional knowledge and practices and caused large scale damage to environment”.
Explain how, adopting the traditional practices can be helpful in achieving the objective of sustainable development?

Answer 1

The given statement is uite appropriate. Indian traditional practices were environment friendly and worked as complementary to the system and not its controller. The traditional agriculture system, healthcare system, housing, transport etc. were intrinsically environment friendly. The traditional practices used natural products and processes which are more or less free from side effects. For example by adopting medicinal plantsproducts we can conserve the resources and achieve the objective of sustainable development.