A Charter for the Land

The habit of considering land as incidental to narrowly conceived departmental schemes instead of as a single indivisible resource which needs attention in its own right lies at the back of many of our troubles and must be rooted out. Today, the irrigation engineer looks at land as something either to water or to drain (but rarely both), the agricultural soil conservation engineer as something to terrace and bund, the forester as something to grow trees on, and the planner as something which can create large- scale employment opportunities