Land and Land Resources are crucial factors to be dealt.

Dasilnaickanoor watershed

While enlightening  the secondary school pupils of SEVAI Shanthi Matriculation Higher Secondary School on the June,16^th  Mrs.Chitra,School Director of SEVAI Shanthi  Matriculation Higher School addressed the students “Land and Land Resources refer to a delineable area of the earth's terrestrial surface, encompassing all attributes of  the biosphere immediately above or below this surface, including those of the near-surface, climate, the soil and terrain forms, the surface hydrology ,including shallow lakes, rivers, marshes and swamps,, the near-surface sedimentary layers and associated groundwater and geohydrological reserve, the plant and animal populations, the human settlement pattern and physical results of past and present human activity ,terracing, water storage or drainage structures, roads, buildings, etc.It is important to Promote the development of cost-effective methods for land and soil survey and classification including testing and identification of soil constraints, criteria and methods for assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management and monitoring trends, documentation, information and technical guidance for the assessment, conservation and productive management of land resources. It is significant to promote the development and harmonisation of land evaluation methodology, land use analysis, land degradation assessments, agro-ecological zoning, indicators of land quality and criteria for monitoring land use systems and works towards their application through participatory land use planning approaches, soil and land use classification and correlation methodologies and mapping, Maintaining a database and web-based information system on land resources and land use at national and regional level for comparative studies and analysis, governments and other stakeholders in the formulation and implementation of appropriate land use and land management policies, strategies and action plans and support countries in the formulation and implementation of sustainable land and ecosystems management programmes/projects, with attention to land productivity, degradation, problem soils, biodiversity and climate change issues as well as emergency and relief operations”.

School Director added “Land Resources in India envelop approximately 1.3 million sq miles and is a cape protruding into the Indian Ocean in between the Bay of Bengal on the east and Arabian Sea on the west. In spite of sufficient accessibility of landed topography, population pressure in the country is excessive and that makes space for both food production and the real estate market. However, land resources in India are both essential and at shortage in present days. Land resources in India are considered as non-renewable energy reserve. Further, they are associated with a host of several other elements such as agrarian base of rural as well as urban economy, accessibility of water, and other factors. Speedy urban expansion and the rising land usages have changed because of the increasing population growth and economic development in some selected landscapes is being observed in India of late. The monitoring of land use changes is essential to understand land use over different sequential or spatial time scales for successful land management. Today, with increasing urbanization as well as industrialization, an increased pressure has been witnessed on land, water and other environment resources, mainly in big metropolitan cities. In order to utilize available land resources in India effectively, the country is re-organising efforts in the areas of land resource management. Thus, there has been a growth in land resource companies as well as in other service providers across the country. India occupies a land area of around 3,287,263 sq km. There are different types of land in India, of which 54.7 percent of it is civilised land. The several types of land resources in India include agricultural land, farmland, barren land, real estate land, commercial land and residential land. Majority of the population of Indian are engaged in agricultural and allied activities and thus agricultural land accounts for near about 54.7 percent of the total land area of the country. These are mostly situated on the outskirts of metropolitan cites. There are lands for agricultural activities in almost every state of the country. The trend of love for nature and due to less available space in city apartments, farm land is fast becoming the best option for land resources in India. Residential Land is fast becoming scarce in the mad rush to stay near work places and near to the urban city patches. Thus, land resources in India are crucial factors dealt by the Indian government and managed effectively according to the requirements”. This SEVAI Shanthi Matriculation Higher Secondary School focuses on a special bridge course and imparted the lessons as Suggested by Government of Tamilnadu for the interim period prior to the books announcements for the various standards of schools. -Govin