Nagpur, Oct. 20 -- RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday called for a comprehensive and balanced approach to development, stressing that economic growth must go hand in hand with ecological sustainability and ethical values.

Addressing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Vijayadashami function in Nagpur, Bhagwat said one-sided development had contributed to growing environmental instability across the Himalayan region, adding that technological advancement must not come at the cost of human lives.

He said the fundamental solution lay in adopting a sustainable development model that took everyone along and did not endanger the very people it was intended to benefit.

"Along with the economy, we must also consider ecology and ethics," Bhagwat sa...