"It was the Urbs Prima in Indis but it is now at best an imperfect city," says the Mumbai Human Development Report-2009 about the city.

The report, copyrighted by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and developed with the United Nations Development Programme, India, indicates that the solution to decongesting Mumbai is to make it less attractive to migrants.

An international web site giving information about Kandy to tourists had this to say in its concluding paragraph "the city is ugly and its air pollution unbearable". This is a serious matter since tourism in Kandy is affected by such adverse comments and furthermore, this situation greatly endangers the health of the citizens of Kandy, especially school children.

In view of burgeoning population and rising traffic congestion in the Pink City, the state government is gearing up to bring metro rail here and if all goes well the project will materialise in 2013.

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New Delhi: To ensure hassle-free traffic during the Commonwealth Games 2010, the Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared a proposal for a state-of-the-art traffic and communication network in NCR region and allocated Rs 200 crore for the scheme.

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Traffic congestion on city roads may soon become a thing of the past, if Tata Steel

There is no proposal by the government to restrict the use of private cars in the city in order to cut carbon dioxide emissions, nor is there a plan to impose any congestion tax, Union minister of state for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said here on Monday.