Urbanization, Migration and Environmental Degradation in Third World Countries – A Case Study of Indian Metropolitan Cities
- Vol.14(04), October-December
- New Delhi Institute of Town Planners 2017
- 20-30
The study focus on some of the important environmental problems caused by migration, urbanization process in the metropolitan cities of India. The level of urbanization of India increased from 27.81% in 2001 census to 31.6% in 2011 census. The proportion of rural population declined from 72.19% to 68.84%. India is urbanizing rapidly and about 377 million people live in 7935 town/cities (census 2011) across the country which constitutes about 31.2 %. The towns have significantly increased from 5161 in 2001 to 7935 in 2011. But there is high inequality in the distribution of the urban population by size class categories. The authors argue India’s urban future is grave; therefore, there is an urgent need to tackle the urban environmental problem in a rational manner giving attention to the need for improving urban strategies.