India’s Top 20 Promising Cities

India in 2012: 153 rural, 219 transition, 84 semi-urban and 33 urban districts (excluding the Northeast states and Jammu & Kashmir). And in 2025: 96 rural, 220 transition, 115 semi-urban and 58 urban districts. These numbers from McKinsey & Company’s recent report, India’s Economic Geography in 2025: States, Clusters and Cities, attest to the country’s growing urban sprawl. Attendant woes, though, include a big city bias with the major cities consuming a bulk of natural and financial resources as well as unplanned development. – See more at: http://www.indiainfoline.com/article/news-top-story/india%E2%80%99s-top-20-promising-cities-115020600291_1.html#sthash.NIh8qN4k.dpuf