PRESENT ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Volume 19, Issue no.2/ 2025

Authors :

Preeti RUSTAGI 1 , Chand PRAKASH 1* , Kanchan YADAV 2

1 SOCM, SGT University Gurugram , India

2 Gurugram University, Gurugram, India

E-mail : * Corresponding author: chandsaini03@gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.47743/pesd2025192009

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