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Achieving rapid economic development in a country like India has become a kind of threaten in environment. A faster growth of population in the country induces faster expansion of agricultural growth and unplanned industrialization to meet huge demand for food and other necessities that outcomes environmental degradation. India is one of the fastest growing economies of the world and will continue its widespread and rapid urbanization and industrialization often compels planners to overlook the importance of maintaining a natural balance in environment. The unplanned behavior of economy has resulted ecological imbalance with disastrous fallouts such as deleting natural resources, degraded land, disappearing forests, endangered species, dangerous toxins, global warming etc. Population pressure contributes to land degradation and soil erosion, thus affecting productive resource base of the economy. The present paper is an attempt to study the population in India and its impacts on land, forest and water and energy resources. The paper concludes with some policy reflections and emphasizes the potential importance of natural resources.