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Identify challenges faced by generative and parasitic towns in India and their possible remedies.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Settlements

Bert F. Hoselitz (1955) divided cities by their effect on the region sustaining them: the generative city raises regional income through forward and backward linkages, a widening market and diffused innovation; the parasitic city grows by extracting surplus — rent, revenue, transfers — returning no developmental impulse.

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  • Challenges facing generative towns
  • Challenges facing parasitic towns
  • Remedies for generative towns
  • Remedies for parasitic towns
  • The labels are a continuum, not a binary

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