Today the environment and rural development cannot be looked at as two distinct subjects. What is suggested as a result?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Alternate sets of eco-friendly technologies, each community choosing what suits it
Rural conditions differ from place to place. So the need is for alternate sets of eco-friendly technologies that lead to sustainable development, and each rural community chooses the one that suits its purpose.
The test is that the technology must be eco-friendly, not only high-yielding. Best practices are tried out only where they are found relevant, not copied unchanged everywhere. The choice is made by the community itself, not by officials from above.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.7 Conclusion … Today we cannot look at the environment and rural development as two distinct subjects. There is need to invent or procure alternate sets of eco-friendly technologies that lead to sustainable development in different circumstances. From these, each rural community can choose whatever will suit its purpose. We need to learn from, and also try out when found relevant, practices from the available set of ‘best practice’ illustrations (which means success stories of rural development experiments that have already been carried out in similar conditions in different parts of India), to speed up this process of ‘learning by doing’.” |