About
a quarter of India's population is urban. Numerically that is
about the whole population of USA. At least 23 Indian cities
have over million residents. Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and Chennai
are the four main cities of India. The first three cities have
over 10 million residents each. Tourist Destination India. Delhi
is actually comprised of two cities, Old Delhi and New Delhi,
which is the capital of India. Delhi has a large number of historical
monuments and is probably the city with the largest number of
historical monuments in the world. Calcutta was considered in
the past as the center of Indian culture and intellectuals.
Some of the famous modern India philosophers, like Swami Vivekananda,
were centered in Calcutta. Today Calcutta is seen as the most
polluted and poverty stricken city of India. Calcutta was also
the most populated city of India. In the early 1990s Mumbai
became the most populated city of India and is in many fields
the center of India.
India is an emerging economic powerhouse. India's economic success
story began in the 1990's with the liberalization of its economy.
From being referred to as a " land of snake charmers, elephants
and maharajas", India alongwith China is the cynosure of
all eyes around the world. The boom in the Indian economy has
led to the rise of a new affluent middle and upper-middle class
who have a large spending power. India is home to a rising number
of billionaires and many of them have made it Forbes World Top
250 billionaire list. There has been an increase in the numbers
of cars on the road and the reach of telephones. People are
lapping up FMCG products like never before. There are some cities
of India like Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad and others which
have grown at a tremendous pace. Some of these major cities
of India have also witnessed a phenomenal increase in the per
capita incomes of people. With a population of some 1,027 million
people, India is now the second country in the world, after
China, to cross the one billion mark. The United Nations now
estimates that by 2050 India will have overtaken China as the
most populous country in the world. Today, Indians make up 16.7
per cent of the world’s population with an annual growth rate
of close to two per cent. China's annual population growth is
only one per cent, while the world population is growing at
an annual rate of 1.4 per cent. |
