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The value of Indian villages in urban society​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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India’s need for new cities has never been greater. To understand this, one just needs to take a look at numbers produced by McKinsey.

The global consultancy group predicts that by 2030 the number of people living in India’s cities will swell from the current estimate of 340m to about 590m – the fastest addition to an urban population in history, outside China.

At present, only about 30 per cent of India’s 1.1bn citizens dwell in urban centres. The remaining 70 per cent reside in rural areas, making Asia’s third-largest economy the biggest nation of villages in the world, exactly as Mahatma Gandhi, the country’s independence leader, envisioned it would be.

However, this is about to change, as India is on the cusp of an urban transformation, according to Shirish Sankhe and Richard Dobbs, authors of McKinsey Global Institute’s re­port “India’s Urban awakening”.

“It took nearly 40 years for [India’s] urban population to rise by 230m, but it will take only half this time to add the next 250m. Cities will be core to India’s economic growth,” they argue.

“They will generate 70 per cent of net new jobs created by 2030, produce more than 70 per cent of GDP, and stimulate a near fourfold increase in per capita incomes across the nation.”

The rise of a new urban class, which experts believe will represent nearly half of India’s population by 2030, is seen as an opportunity to create and develop state-of-the art cities and drive the country’s growth to double-digit levels, according to city planners, environmentalists and social scientists.

However there are a number of concerns. Is India ready for such a transformation? Are the country’s leaders equipped to direct this phenomenal transition from rural to urban societies? And is there a vision about what kind of new cities should be built?

Prathima Manohar, founder of Urban Vision, an India-based think-tank, says unequivocally that the country is unprepared and ill-equipped to tackle the challenges it faces to create new and better cities.

“Most new cities in the world will probably emerge in India and Africa,” says Ms Manohar. “We have a great opportunity to create the cities we like and, more importantly, we can avoid the mistakes the others in the west and more developed countries made before us. But the problem is that we lack a vision.”

“On the policy side of things, there is nobody driving the development of cities at a

macro-level. Policymakers are struggling to deal with the present and are finding it impossible to look at the next wave of urbanisation, which will be bigger and will grow at a very fast pace,” adds Ms Manohar.

Since India gained independence from the British empire in 1947, very few entirely new cities have emerged in the subcontinent. The first newly planned city was Chandigarh, in northern India, which was designed by Le Corbusier. The noted Swiss architect and urban planner had been commissioned by Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.

Only three other major cities followed: Bhubaneswar and Naya Raipur, in eastern India, and Gandhinagar, in the west of the country. Apart from these four, most other “new” cities already existed and have grown bigger over the past six decades because of economic and industrial development.