At the time of Independence, India had to import large amount of food grains for increasing population. To ensure maximum profit in shortest time, India adopted a new technology based agriculture strategy putting more emphasis on high yield variety seeds, more irrigation facilities, modern means of agriculture, with high dependency on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and insecticides that was called Green Revolution. The introduction of high yielding seeds and increased use of fertilizers and irrigation increased our production to make India self sufficient in food grains and raised farmers income and reduced poverty. But Green revolution adversely affected our environment. Excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides has caused air and water pollution. Modern means of production killed micro organism and reduced soil fertility. The reduction of pasture lands and bio- diversity, water- logging, soil erosion and depletion of forests are the common drawbacks of green revolution. The present paper is an attempt to highlight the Characterstics of green revolution and its impacts on environment.