Nehru's audacious vision and Le Corbusier's design produced a Chandigarh exceptionalism. It’s now battling the same urban woes as Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.
India’s urban population has expanded rapidly, with regions such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru now ranking among world’s largest urban agglomerations by population, notes the survey.
By 2036, 40% of India’s population will reside in cities. This presents significant challenges—the problem isn’t the pace of urbanisation, but the failure to sustain the expansion.
According to Magicbricks Rental Index, average rental rates rose 17.1% year-on-year in Q2 across 13 major cities. But experts say housing market may be stabilising post-COVID.
Land & property record systems in most cities are not updated due to reasons such as manpower shortages & multiple authorities. Govt plans to create geo-spatially enabled records.
Study by researchers at IIT-Bhubaneswar, published in Nature, find that night temps have been rising across India, but rate at which cities are heating up higher than non-urban areas.
Global Cities Index, published on 21 May by advisory firm Oxford Economics, ranks 1,000 cities in 5 categories. Delhi stands at 350 while UP’s Sultanpur ranks last.
The central government’s investments in urban projects rose by 488% between 2009-10 and 2021-22. Why then do we still await better governance where we live, work, and play?
Poor urban planning & weak municipal governance are responsible for recurring issues like flooding and pollution in India’s cities, says Annual Survey of India’s City-System (ASICS) 2023.
While export values have increased, India’s share in the global dairy trade has remained largely stagnant, despite being the world’s largest milk producer.
Initial talks held on the possibility of India entering the programme that was started in 2017 between France, Germany and Spain to ensure European sovereignty in defence and security.
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