Dr. Kanhaiya Ahuja | Sujay S Phatak
This study attempts to examine the growth process of India from sustainability point of view as measured in terms of improvement of quality of life while analyzing the effects of social, economic and environmental development on the quality of life. A cross sectional analysis of various indicators among different states of India is used to test the sustainability of development process by integrating the index of quality of life, quality of environment and Index of social and economic development. It is found that the growth process so far has ignored the sustainable development in India. There is thus a need to make development compatible with environment.