Indian Urbanisation - The dont see the problem with the problem. Indian Urabanisation is a lopsided growth. A greedy, unplanned, unorganized (read thoughtless & mindless), un directed, even purposeless(!!) and still more sad(!!!) meaningless growth!?! Slums are a natural offshoot of urban development but India's down-towns- are not just small slums but are 'civilzations' by themselves. There are a lot of things going wrong, seriously here: No governance & unrealistic. Creating sattellite towns is not the same as creating sattelite slums. There is no limit on sky scrappers but there is a limit to the existing infrastructure & a way out for preparing to a 30% increase of urban population in the next 3 decades is not by creating SEZ around cities but by spreading these SEZ inside-far interior villages - speadout exclusively among the rural areas - in other words decentralization of industrial growth. Establishment of good infrastrucute across the lenght & breadth of rural India would solve the issue of Urbanization. Otherwise, be prepared for typical (Human) irrational growth of 50% increase in urban population in 10 years which is sheer displacement/movement of people & not real growth. Talk of Indian growth & development as missed the soul - India lives in villages & there is no infrastructure, growth opportunities in the villages & farmers continue to be either neglected or taken for a ride with schemes- India is heading for a civil war and U2. -kavin(dra) Mathi.
