Kolkata has been ranked as India's best city to live in the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems 2014.
Around 300 million people live in towns and cities. In the next 20-25 years, another 300 million Indians will shift to towns.
'Societies have cyclical times and we are in one of those... The most troubling part of India is that it doesn't provide equal opportunities for everybody to get a leg up... Somehow the opportunities are not there for everybody. They are for a select few, and so many of the 1.2 billion people are getting left behind,' says Swati Ramanathan, co-founder, Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, in a special series where various Indian tell Rediff.com what they love most about India.
Finding is part of a survey conducted by Janaagraha Centre for citizenship and democracy
Poor land-use planning, indiscriminate approvals of building plans and the absence of disaster-risk assessment in urban design have resulted in what experts term concentrated concretization, predisposing cities to disaster risks
