Letters: Some global 'towns' please

This refers to the report “Among 440 rising global cities in 2025, India to have 36: Report” (June 28). The June 2012 edition of McKinsey Global’s report on the “Emerging 440” global cities should draw the attention of planners in India at all levels. We should plan for developing hundreds of global “towns” across geographical areas with population-based representation. These towns should have all basic facilities like transport, potable water supply, health care, comfortable accommodation for locals and tourists, self-regulated markets, good educational institutions and so on. Such towns will act as filters to ensure that the emerging global “cities” are not suffocated to extinction by migration from rural and semi-urban areas, where the majority of the country’s population now lives. Sporadic approaches to achieve this objective are being made in states like Kerala and around cities like Mumbai and Bangalore. We need more careful planning.

M G Warrier Mumbai

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