With 130-140 million Indians likely to move to cities in the next decade and an equal number in the one after that, the development of urban India represents the biggest challenge you can think of — in the next two decades, India will have to create as many new cities as it created in the last several hundred years. Alternately, the existing cities which are home to around 285 million people today will have to absorb nearly double the number of people they do today.

><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>Sunil Jain:</B> Urban disaster</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold;'>Till the time that politicians are focussed on rural voters, it

Sunil Jain: Urban disaster

Till the time that politicians are focussed on rural voters, its unlikely theyll give cities the kind of space they need

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