Dipayan Mazumdar discusses non-sustainability is one of major risks of unrestrained development. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an issue that is working its way into many policy debates and corporate agendas.

IF we keep on felling trees without planting them, the area that was once a forest, will become a desert. Many parts of Delhi have already started experiencing shortage of water. The reason for this, is the increase in the average density of population, the ground water table going down, and green belts being replaced by concrete structures resulting in decreased average annual rainfall and decline in the recharging of ground water. Further, report submitted to Supreme Court by the Environment Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) states that Delhi’s roads are already being choked by the vehicles. Lutyens Delhi, less than 100 years after construction, has already featured in the list of 100 most endangered sites in the world. Thus, the question to be addressed is when it comes to development, what does ‘sustainable’ mean?

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