Resources in India refer to the untamed natural essence of the environment. They contain a significant amount of material as well as aesthetic values. Resources in India can be categorized into renewable, flow and non-renewable sources. While renewable resources in India primarily involve living sources such as forests, fish, reindeer, coffee and so on; and non-living sources like water and soil. The basic characteristic of renewable resources is that they are sustainable if used with sense and discretion.

Land Resources in India covers almost 1.3 million square miles and is a peninsular protruding into the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on the east. Despite ample accessibility of landed terrain, the pressure of the population on land in India is too much to make space for both food production as well as the realty market. However, land resources in India are both indispensable and at shortage in present days. Water resources in India are considerable reserves, just like land. A prime use of water in India is for irrigational purposes. Through irrigation, it has been possible to extend the rough area under cultivation and raise agricultural output. In addition, water is required in huge quantities for industrial and domestic use. Forest resources in India relates to the typical topography, wild life, terrain, climate and vegetation. Forest resources in India have always been one of the richest resources and these resources are antique in nature and composition, since the nation was once covered with dense forests in its primitive days.

Thus it is very important to draw the lines between how many resources in India to be used and how much to be left in order to give nature the time and chance to reproduce the used-up resources. Flow resources consist of wind, tide and sunlight. The preservation of resources in India is of paramount importance not just for the sake of the production of commodities, but more so because of maintaining environmental balance and ecological reasons. Due to its geographical location, India is bestowed with rich natural resources ranging from dense stretches forestry to a number of water bodies.