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Soil and water conservation are the major challenges in the development of hill areas of India. Explain.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Regional Development and Planning

Roughly 18 per cent of India is hill country in the 305-2,135 metre band; tracts designated for hill planning hold 22 per cent of the area and 10 per cent of the population — Himalaya, North-East, Western Ghats, Nilgiris.

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  • The domain
  • Mechanism one — why the soil goes
  • Mechanism two — why the water goes
  • Mechanism three — conservation capital decays with out-migration
  • Significance — the binding constraint, not one problem among many
  • The live disagreement
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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