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Describe various aspects of urban environment in India and assess the impact of urban development programmes on it.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The urban environment in India is not a single inheritance. The same city delivers different air, water and safety to different classes, so any description must specify who lives in which part of it. Radhakamal Mukerjee's social ecology and Amitabh Kundu's work on exclusionary urbanisation converge here: the urban environment is a distributed good.

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  • The urban environment in three layers
  • What the programmes have changed
  • Who receives the environmental benefit
  • Conclusion

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