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Urban Growth and Urban Poverty - Delivery of Services - Manish Jain - 12-06-2018

Urban Growth and Status of Services

India's urban population is second largest in the world after China and is higher than the total urban population of all countries put together barring China, USA and Russia Over last fifty years, while the country's population has grown by 2.5 times, in the urban areas it has grown by five times. In 1951, only 62.4 million people (17.3 per cent of the total population of that time) lived in urban areas. By 2001 nearly 307 million people (30.5 per cent of the total population) will be living in urban areas.

There are 23 metropolitan cities with a population of one million plus and these cities accommodate 33 per cent of total urban population. Including these metro cities there are 300 urban centers with population 100,000 and above which house 64 percent of the urban population....

Urban Poverty and Delivery of services

The number of urban poor in India is estimated at 80 million, 40 per cent of the total urban population; 65 per cent of the urban poor are women and children. Women often belong to the poorest of the poor. Women play a minimal role in decision-making, with patriarchal values reinforced through tradition, religion and other socio-political institutions. They have a low'rate of work force participation, and a general lack of access to institutional credit mechanisms. Low self-esteem, fear of society, feat of laws, fear of
men and above all fear of violence creates a vicious inter-generational circle of poverty and deprivation....

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