Sustainable Development is the organizing principle for meeting human development goal, while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural system to provide the natural system to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services based on which the economy and society depends. The sustainable development continues to be the key ideas around which environment and development are structured. But in the last few couple of years also witnessed development reversal and accelerated environmental degradation in particular places. Thus, this paper intends to study the impact of development on environment, and factor that impedes sustainability of development.

Keywords: Development, Environment, Degradation, Sustainability.