
GOVERNMENT
India is faced with the challenge of sustaining its rapid economic growth while dealing with global threat of climate change. There are some observed changes in climate parameters in India too, like increase in surface temperature by 0.4 ℃, variation in monsoon patterns, rise in sea levels by 1.06-1.75mm per year, extreme weather conditions breaking over 130 years records, Erratic water flow in perennial rivers originating from Himalayas.