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[email protected] Website: www.soilcsi.org 2013 Mission of the Soil Conservation Society of India To gain recognition as a credible think-tank, to provide over- views of the scientific community on policy issues of agriculture, to encourage expertise and promote excellence relating to agricultural sciences, making it a powerful instrument for the growth of national economy through a vibrant farm sector. Pledge We Pledge to ensure and ascertain the sustainable and optimal use of inherited land resources as generation equity, through their proper conservation, development and management for the welfare and continued of life on the planet ii [ Contents ] Introduction Background Objectives Management Bodies Executive Council Profile of Experts Medals, Awards & Research Fellowships List of Publications iii We live on this Earth as guests of the green plants which convert sunlight into food and of the farm women and men who toil in sun and rain to cultivate them – J.S. Bali Care for Land Care for Water Care for Forests And the Grasses Mix Industry with Agriculture Get Productivity with Profits Within Bio-Industrial Watersheds –Soil Conservation Society of India iv Background Soil Conservation Society of India was born at Hazaribagh, Bihar (now in Jharkhand) in December 1951, at the National Symposium on Soil Conservation organized by the multidisciplinary Department of Soil Conservation created by the Damodar Valley Corporation, on the pattern of the TVA—Tennessee Valley Authority (of USA).