Kuinka rakentaa 30 uutta Bangalorea?

Rediff.com:ista

• In the 25-year period (2001-26) India will be adding 220 million to its urban population, taking it up by 77 per cent.
• Will have to add around 14 Delhis or 18 Mumbais or 30 Bangalores!
• "He has another idea. Instead of growing a city concentrically around its periphery, develop new towns in largely un-built-up areas with a fast rail or road link that can easily go up to 200 km."... Several such new towns can come up along a single link. Builders say such a town can be entirely self-financing in terms of its infrastructure so long as it has a critical mass, stretch over 5,000 acres or more in mixed development and accommodate half a million people upwards. The best new developments in the country, Greater Noida and New Town near Kolkata, meet these criteria.
• To have land use plans for areas where a city will grow in the future or to plan new cities (India needs 200 new one million population cities in 20 years) you need state government and politicians who are willing and able.