Understanding Social Science

  Hello inquisitive people. Drainage system of India is vast and diverse just like India’s physiography and population and most of us find it knotty. Don’t worry we are here to make it simple and enthralling for you. Drainage would be covered in three blogs. This is part one that would cover basics.   Drainage Terms of significance:- Drainage: - It refers to river system of an area. Drainage basin: - The area drained by a single river system is referred to as drainage basin. For e.g.:- All the areas drained by Ganga or the areas Ganga passes through would be regarded as drainage basin of Ganga. Water divide: - An upland or mountain that separates two neighboring drainage basins is called a water divide. Ambala is an example of water divide. It separated the Indus and the Ganges. Confluence: - A place where streams merge. Tributary: - A branch of river that flows into main stream. Distributary: - The branches originating from tributaries are distributaries. W...

  Sustainable Development     Introduction:- Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depends. The main aim is to create a society where the needs of present generation are met without compromising the needs of future generation. After the Brundtland report in 1986, sustainable development has taken a turn. Since then is has been shifting towards economic development. It is argued that Brundtland report was a mere business strategy for world development. The concept of sustainable development has been and still a subject to criticism for it never answers the question what is to be preserved under this notion and what not. Critics argue that there is nothing like sustainable use of non renewable resources since any positive rate of exploitation will eventually lead to exhaustion of Earth’s finit...