Migration and Opportunities:
What can explain such faster growth of census towns?
Are these census towns well equipped to assure a reasonable quality of life?
Why Spill-over growth is bad?
Impacts and Future Strategy
The next question is whether these new towns as a spill of very large cities are the proper substitutes of the second-ranked cities which are expected to play the role of engine of growth, once the megapolises or very large cities meet the saturation point. Usually in urban economic literature we have learnt that once the largest cities exhaust the economic opportunities the second ranks cities come up to replace them in terms of investment, growth and employment generation. These cities are certainly much better off in terms of infrastructure compared to the new small town. But for them to take over the lead role, proper coordination between the state and those who have a thorough understanding of the growth dynamics of the urban space is essential. In the Indian context a clear-cut Initiative for the urban investment or planning is yet to emerge on the basis of the growth potential of different cities and towns with economic cum geographic perspective.
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