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Gandhi's model of economic growth is a kin to the sustainable growth which the present day environmentalists profess, where as our leaders, policy makers profess to western model of economic growth. Mrs. Indira Gandhi's speech on the 1970s conference on Human Environment was highly acclaimed. She established a National Committee for Environmental planning and cooperation. Soon after a series of enactment of environmental laws for Environmental protection-were passed in the parliament, the U.N. conference on the world wild life protection Act 1972 was enacted and Gandhi was a great environmental activist of the world and for which she was awarded the prestigious International Union of Conservation of Nature Award. In recent years so may grass root environmental movements launched against the developmental activities that have threatened the ecological balance.