The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is a proposed network of manufacturing hubs that would cover cities such as Jaipur and Ahmedabad across six states. Seen as India’s biggest infrastructure project, how will it impact the numerous cities and towns around it?A study of urbanization in north-western India predicts that the cores of megacities such as Delhi and Mumbai will decline,whereas cities on the periphery will benefit, and so will smaller cities in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
The study’s authors, Manisha Jain and Mathias Jehling of Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, don’t see urbanization in India as a result of natural growth. Instead, they see it as a product of migration from rural to urban areas and classification of rural areas close to large metros as urban-areas that then become small cities. Most rural areas around Delhi transformed this way, with neighbouring states pushing policies to take advantage of proximity to the national capital.
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