India’s Natural Resource Challenges - By Chronicle Editorial Team

The natural capital are those elements of the nature that provide valuable goods and services to humans, such as the stock of forests, food,clean air, water, land, minerals, etc. Monitoring the natural capital is important and should be one of the determiners for sustainable development.

Recently, India faced power crisis in several states as the stock of coal held by the country’s thermal power plants had hit critically low levels.

• According to data released by the Central Electricity Authority, 112 out of the 135 thermal power plants in India had coal stock of just four days during that period.

India relies on coal ....