Geography Teaching Today

This section investigates some of the issues that challenge New India. 

Key question:

• What are the future challenges for India?

Key concepts:
Environmental interaction
Sustainable development

• Wealth gap – India still has high levels of poverty, illiteracy and persistent malnutrition. 25% of the population earns less than $0.40 a day. India has the highest rate of malnutrition in children under 3 (46% in 2007) in the world.
• Over exploitation of water resources is an issue in some parts of India. Deforestation is a problem in Madhya Pradesh and other parts of the north-east.
• The infrastructure in India is often poor. The government is proposing to spend more on roads, metro rail networks, ports, airports, power and telecommunications.
• India has sizable water resources but also a large and growing population and greater demand for water due to rising living standards and industrial development. Problems are the over-irrigation of fields, wasting water and lowering of water tables, water loss due to droughts, less than half the urban population has access to sewage disposal systems.
• India has an estimated number of people living with HIV of 5.7 million by the end of 2005.

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