• Dipankar Biswas
• Dr. Manjula Dubey

The present work deals with population growth and its impact on environmental degradation in tribal areas of Bilaspur district in Chhattisgarh. Tribal areas depended on food gathering, hunting and fishing and any others hunting based primary activities. Population growth is an important cause of poverty in the tribal areas of Bilaspur district. We can feel the firm relationship between population growth and environmental degradation. The pollution is caused by lack of conciseness and unscientific use of natural resources. If it may causesed highly, the environmental degradation must be occurred. As deforestation is an example of this type of degradation. The overpopulation can fells on a bad impact on environment and it occurred the environmental degradation.

Soil erosion, Women’s education, tribal population, population growth, environmental degradation,

"POPULATION GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: A CASE STUDY OF TRIBAL AREAS IN BILASPUR DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.397-402, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905B58.pdf

"POPULATION GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: A CASE STUDY OF TRIBAL AREAS IN BILASPUR DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp397-402, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905B58.pdf