India: the next superpower?: managing the environment: a growing problem for a growing power

India has undergone a remarkable transformation over the last two decades. Its economic growth, averaging at six percent between 1992 and 2001, and eight percent between 2002 and 2011, has seen it emerge as one of the fastest growing economies in the world today. The quadrupling of its national GDP, and the rise of its per-capita income from $915 in 1991 to $3,700 in 2011, has had a powerful impact in improving the economic and social welfare of its citizens across a range of parameters.