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India imports small amounts of natural gas. In 2004, India consumed about 1,089 × 10 ^ 9 cu ft (3.08 × 10 10 m 3) of natural gas, the first year in which the country showed net natural gas imports. During 2004, India imported 93 × 10 ^ 9 cu ft (2.6 × 10 9 m 3) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar. [16]
India's arable land area of 1,597,000 km 2 (394.6 million acres) is the second largest in the world, after the United States. Its gross irrigated crop area of 826,000 km 2 (215.6 million acres) is the largest in the world, followed by US and China. [ 71 ]
NGT. NGT has cited discrepancies in the requirement of land figures (forest and non-forest, Government and Non-Government) 8: Ujh Multipurpose Project: J & K: DPR under appraisal in CWC/CEA 9: Kishau Multipurpose Project: HP/Uttrakhand: DPR prepared. MOU for Joint Venture between Govt. Of UK and Govt. Of HP signed. JV SPV yet to be formed. 10 ...
In the early 1980s, the Planning Commission of India realized the need to set up a system for efficient management of remote sensing data and the conventional data - for management and development of natural resources of the India. To start with the same, a planning committee was constituted in 1982.
Some claim, that because more than 50% of this land was barren or bushland, the area under productive forest was actually less than 350,000 square kilometres, or approximately 10% of the country's land area. India's 0.6% average annual rate of deforestation for agricultural and non-lumbering land uses in the decade beginning in 1981 was one of ...
Map of India based on survey of rivers of India.. The Indian rivers interlinking project is a proposed large-scale civil engineering project that aims to effectively manage water resources in India by linking rivers using a network of reservoirs and canals to enhance irrigation and groundwater recharge and reduce persistent floods in some parts and water shortages in other parts of the country.
India experiences an average precipitation of 1,170 millimetres (46 in) per year, or about 4,000 cubic kilometres (960 cu mi) of rains annually or about 1,720 cubic metres (61,000 cu ft) of fresh water per person every year. [1] India accounts for 18% of the world's population and about 4% of the world's water resources.
Independent India's most revolutionary land policy was perhaps the abolition of the Zamindari system (feudal landholding practices). Land-reform policy in India had two specific objectives: "The first is to remove such impediments to increase in agricultural production as arise from the agrarian structure inherited from the past.