{"id":315110,"date":"2024-11-04T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=315110"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T13:17:02","slug":"what-are-major-challenges-faced-by-indian-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-major-challenges-faced-by-indian-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"What are major challenges faced by Indian cities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> <em>World Cities Day is observed every year on October 31. This has brought focus on India\u2019s urbanisation story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. Urbanisation refers to increasing population shift from rural to urban areas, leading to the growth and expansion of cities.<\/p>\n<p>2. Census 2011 estimates India\u2019s urban population to be 31.16% of the total population. While World Bank suggests that around 40% of India\u2019s population lives in urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>3. Unlike the developed countries, India\u2019s urbanisation is largely driven by economic distress, leading to poverty-driven urbansiation.<\/p>\n<p>4. Some of the urban challenges faced by Indian cities include: A) Housing shortage B) Poor access to clean water and sanitation C) Unregulated migration D) Poor local governance E) Environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p>5. Climate change also severely affects Indian cities, leading to pollution, urban flooding and heat island effects.<\/p>\n<p>6. Initiative taken by Indian government to ensure sustainable urbanisation include: A) Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) B) Smart Cities Mission C) Climate Smart Cities Assessment Framework 2.0 D) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: World Cities Day is observed every year on October 31. This has brought focus on India\u2019s urbanisation story. 1. Urbanisation refers to increasing population shift from rural to urban areas, leading to the growth and expansion of cities. 2. Census 2011 estimates India\u2019s urban population to be 31.16% of the total population. While World&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-are-major-challenges-faced-by-indian-cities\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What are major challenges faced by Indian cities?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knolls","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}