AND BELABOURED...

Is The Condition Of Infrastructure
Census 2001 noted that urban India consisted 27.8% of the total 1.03 billion population. That percentage in absolute figures is almost equal to the total US population! The comparison, however, ends exactly here. With about 35 cities having more than a million population and with three mega cities (Mumbai, Delhi & Kolkata) amongst the ten largest cities of the world, the urban infrastructure that India has to offer is simply deplorable. About 52% of the urban populace does not have access to sanitation; and about 40-50% of the solid waste is not disposed off . Also, even with immense rise in vehicular population, the road length in urban India has grown marginally by 5% in 40 years.

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Source:- IIPM-Business and Economy, Editor:- Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri - 2006