India is a country with innumerable diversities, an entity composed of many communities, races classes, languages and subcultures. In any such nation, there are many obstacles to the achievement of national integration.
According to 1991 census, women as a separate group constitute 48.1 per cent of the entire population. Inspite of great achievements made by women in the field of education, politics, and management etc.
India was one of the pioneers in health service planning with a focus on primary health care. In 1946, the Health Survey and Development Committee, headed by Sir Joseph Bhose recommended establishment of a well structured and comprehensive health service with a sound primary health care infrastructure.
With population explosion, the problem of housing has become more serious. Proper housing is must as it catapults the productivity of labour and it is also a basic human right.
Social problems arise out of social transformation and contradictions. Social problem pose an obstacle for the upliftment of the society and its economic progress.
To maintain the need of food for the growing population and to meet the minimum food requirement, various steps have been taken in these directions.
The problem of scarcity of resources which arises before an individual consumer also arises collectively before an economy. On account of this problem and economy has to choose between the following:
Problems of sustainable development are rooted in issues of resource use and their pattern of distribution and ownership. Thus a policy towards sustainable development cannot be framed in isolation to politics and state regulations.
India is a multi-national and multi-lingual country, speaking many languages, professing many religions and following diverse customs. There is an understanding sense of solidarity which comes out in times of stress, against foreign aggression.
India is largely an agricultural country. Eighty per cent of her vast populations live, directly or indirectly, on income derived from agriculture. But to say that India lives by agriculture does not mean that India is agriculturally advanced.