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The Challenges
Addressing several of India's key challenges will mean an increased construction and thus an impact
on the environment.
• The country needs • Almost 65.5 million • While India bears • Fast depletion of
highways, roads, Indians, many of whom the burden of natural resources
bridges, railways, are poor migrants, about 195 million such as coal, iron
warehouses, live in urban slums. undernourished and deterioration
factories, houses, Towards sustainable people, the country of infrastructure
hospitals, urbanization India has also wastes about owing to corrosion
educational launched the Smart 33% of its food given India’s
institutions and Cities project requiring produced. Safely weather conditions
much much more. infrastructure transporting and
development, storing this food
maintenance, repair, material requires
renovation and roads, railways and
upgrade of structures. warehousing
infrastructure.
India
is constructing
23 km of roads as
against a construction
target of 41 km
a day
India needs to build
48
million homes
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In Pursuit of Sustainable Development
