With 590 mn people in cities by 2030, a business-as-usual approach will mean urban India will look like one giant slum
Shirish Sankhe / April 23, 2010, 0:21 IST

Warangal, April 7: Urbanisation process and rising land prices in the suburbs of Warangal city are gradually taking their toll on large swathes of agricultural land, which is officially being permitted for other use through AP Agricultural Land (Conversion for non-agricultural purposes) Act, 2006.

37 per cent of the expenditure was on food items and 63 per cent on non-food items

NEW DELHI: The monthly per capita expenditure in the urban areas of Delhi is the highest in the country, reveals a report on

The news on the conditions of people in the world's slums is mixed: there has been tangible improvement but it is not enough, and the mass of the slum population is growing. Since 2000, the lives of about 227 million living in slum conditions have improved and the Millennium Development target for shelter has been surpassed by 2.2 times.

Till the time that politicians are focussed on rural voters, it