Published By: United Nations Research Institute for Social DevelIndia no longer lives in villages. At the dawn of the new millennium,
300 million Indians lived in its nearly 3700 towns and cities, in sharp
contrast to only 60 million in 1947 when the country became
independent. During the last 50 years the population of India has
grown two and half times, but the urban population has grown nearly
five times. In absolute terms, India’s urban population is the second
largest in the world after China’s, and is almost twice the combined
urban population of France, Germany, and the UK.
Author(s): P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti | Posted on: Oct 03, 2017 | Views() | Download (108)