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Banking service chronicle
Banking service chronicle Published this article page no 1 land-use records are maintained by land revenue department. the land use categories add up to reporting area which is somewhat different from the geographical area. the survey of india is responsible for measuring geographical area of administrative units in india. have you ever used a map prepared by survey of india the difference between the two concepts are that while the former changes somewhat depending on the estimates of the land reve...
Junior science refresher
Buy and subsribe here Junior science refresher Published this article page no 2 land-use in a region to a large extent is influenced by the nature of economic activities carried out in that region. however while economic activities change over time land like many other natural resources is fixed in terms of its area. at this stage one needs to appreciate three types of changes that an economy undergoes which affect land-use. i the size of the economy measured in terms of value for all the ...
Meri saheli magazine
Meri saheli magazine Published this article page no 3 in other words the secondary and the tertiary sectors usually grow much faster than the primary sector specifically the agricultural sector. this type of change is common in developing countries like india. this process would result in a gradual shift of land from agricultural uses to non-agricultural uses. you would observe that such changes are sharp around large urban areas. the agricultural land is being used for building purposes. iii thirdly though the contribution of the agricultural activities reduces over time the pressure on land ...
Competition Success Review
Competition Success Review Published this article page no 5 india has undergone major changes within the economy over the past four or five decades and this has influenced the land-use changes in the country. these changes between 1960- 61 and 2008-09 have been shown in fig. 5.1. there are two points that you need to remember before you derive some meaning from this figure. firstly the percentages shown in the figure have been derived with respect to the reporting area. secondly since even the reporting area has been relatively constant over the years a decline in one category usually leads to ...
arihant current affairs magazine
Buy and subscribe here arihant current affairs magazine Published this article page no 6 this is due to the changing structure of indian economy which is increasingly depending on the contribution from industrial and services sectors and expansion of related infrastructural facilities. also an expansion of area under both urban and rural settlements has added to the increase. thus the area under non-agricultural uses is increasing at the expense of wastelands and agricultural land. ii the...