| Event Title: | Seminar |
| Topic: | Mega-city situation in India and the contextual relevance with the Andhra Pradesh experience |
| Date/Time: | 20 October 2014 | 00:00 - 09:51 |
| Venue: | ISAS Board Room |
| Speaker/s: | Prof K C Sivaramakrishnan, Chairman , Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India |
| Description: | There is a fascination about megacities in India induced more by concentration of high rises in parts of the city, shopping malls, metro lines and ceaseless traffic jams. There is no official definition of metropolitan cities or megacities available in the census though urban agglomerations with more than 10 million people is referred at times to by the Census as megacities. A recent study by the Centre for Policy Research, to be published soon as a book ("Governance of Megacities: Fractured Thinking, Fragmented setupÔÇØ by K C Sivaramakrishnan: Oxford University Press) covers five of the cities Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. This talk will focus on the various experiences and issues surrounding mega-cities in India and will, in this context, further focus on the experience of selecting a new capital for the restructured state of Andhra Pradesh in India. |