Discovering Model Villages: The Importance Of Tropical Forests And Mineral Resources In India:

Seventy percent of India's population lives in the countryside. This makes rural India a focal point for problems of national and global concern about the impact of high population and development on natural resources, lack of sanitation and its impact on health, etc.
Most of the citizens are now located in over 50,000 small villages. These villages were cut off from the rest of the world's civilization until the middle of the last century. About 50% of the village residents are tribal. This...