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Discuss the salient features of urbanisation in India. What steps would you suggest to tackle the negative aspects of urbanisation?

  • UPSC 1995
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Indian urbanisation has never fitted the Western model against which it is measured. It is slow in share yet enormous in number, concentrated at the top yet multiplying at the bottom, and dense with the primary ties that classical urban theory expected cities to dissolve.

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