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education, drinking water, sanitation, transportation, communication, employment
opportunities, agricultural development will be available at the local level. With the
availability of such facilities, living standard of people will be gradually improved.
The government should give priority for the backward regions. They need to be provided
with more means, resource and technologies. There should be conduction of various
activities for socio-economic development of backward regions. Along with government
investment, private sectors as well should be motivated to increase investment for
infrastructural development. The available local resources should be explored as much as
possible. There must be expansion of employment opportunities with the establishment
of industries. Moreover, there must be political dialogue and consensus among major
political parties for the strategic development of entire region.

Activity: 2

Discuss in a group regarding the ways for regional balance and present in your class.
Provide some suggestions for the solution of imbalanced development

3.3 Sustainable Development

Development activities help us to provide
various facilities like health services, education,
transportation etc. That’s why development
activities need to be conducted. There is massive
utilization of resources while conducting
development activities. Several impacts are
seen in environment due to random conduction
of development activities. But we cannot stop
development works. Random utilization of
resources destroys environment. So, the concept
of sustainable development should be adopted.
The concept of sustainable development was

introduced first in Brundtland Commission in Fig: 10
Norway in 1987 A.D. The commission was led by
Prime Minister of Norway at that time, Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland. In order to honor
her, the commission was named as ‘Brundtland Commission’. It is also called as the
commission on environment and development. That commission later on published a
report, “Our Common Future.”
According to Brundtland commission in 1987 A.D., sustainable development can be
defined as, “A process in which the exploitation of resources, direction of investment,
orientation of technological development and institutional change meet the needs of
present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
needs.”
Various resources are used to conduct development activities. There is also need of budget,

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