Post by stegagno on Apr 6, 2011 9:52:40 GMT
The unprecedented growth of towns and cities in India has been a result of the modernization process and the main cause of their incredibly rapid growth has been the fast pace in agricultural and industrial development. About 27% of India’s population was urbanized in 2001 with 285 million people, which is nearly equal to the entire population of the United States.
In the post-colonial period, as the prosperity gap between the cities and the countryside widened, India has experienced greater levels of rural to urban migration and a natural increase in the urban population. Rapid growth of population pressurizing the limited natural resources has triggered off streams of migrants from the rural areas to large cities. This migration seems to be never ending. In 1951, there were only 5 cities with a million plus population, which increased to 7 in 1961, 9 in 1971, 12 in 1981, 23 in 1991, and 36 in 2001. They account for some 40% of its total urban population.
India now has several of the world’s largest cities – Mumbai with 16.37 million, Kolkota with 13.21 million, Delhi with 12.79 million and Chennai with 6.42 million. Cities like Kochi, which already has a million plus population is continuously expanding its borders and in the near future, it is likely to join the developments in the metro cities of Delhi, Chennai and Kolkota. The first city to be declared as a metropolitan city from Kerala is likely to be Cochin
While the luxury apartment culture took its roots in cities like Mumbai and Delhi much earlier, in recent times even in Kerala and especially in Cochin, this concept has many takers. Along with that, in the proliferation of luxury Villas Cochin has taken the lead and scores of costly villas, with a price tag of more than 10 million rupees are now common in this picturesque destination. A vast majority of the people who buy such luxury living spaces are the Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who have made it big in overseas destinations.
In the post-colonial period, as the prosperity gap between the cities and the countryside widened, India has experienced greater levels of rural to urban migration and a natural increase in the urban population. Rapid growth of population pressurizing the limited natural resources has triggered off streams of migrants from the rural areas to large cities. This migration seems to be never ending. In 1951, there were only 5 cities with a million plus population, which increased to 7 in 1961, 9 in 1971, 12 in 1981, 23 in 1991, and 36 in 2001. They account for some 40% of its total urban population.
India now has several of the world’s largest cities – Mumbai with 16.37 million, Kolkota with 13.21 million, Delhi with 12.79 million and Chennai with 6.42 million. Cities like Kochi, which already has a million plus population is continuously expanding its borders and in the near future, it is likely to join the developments in the metro cities of Delhi, Chennai and Kolkota. The first city to be declared as a metropolitan city from Kerala is likely to be Cochin
While the luxury apartment culture took its roots in cities like Mumbai and Delhi much earlier, in recent times even in Kerala and especially in Cochin, this concept has many takers. Along with that, in the proliferation of luxury Villas Cochin has taken the lead and scores of costly villas, with a price tag of more than 10 million rupees are now common in this picturesque destination. A vast majority of the people who buy such luxury living spaces are the Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who have made it big in overseas destinations.