Population Trends of the Urban India

This paper tries to draw attention on the increasing urbanisation trend in India. It tries to highlight that though presently, in absolute terms, the urban population is relatively much lesser than the rural population, still we cannot afford to overlook the shifting rural to urban population trends. The share of urban population of the total is constantly increasing. It is estimated that close to the year 2050 more people in India would live in urban areas rather than rural. This makes the time apt for looking into the urban India challenges separately, strategising afresh, with focus on urban issues and not merely extending the existing development strategies, with less focus on urban issues. Also, this paper tries to explore that if population share of urban is increasing, population in which class of cities are increasing the most? It is expected that this information would help prioritise our urban centric development strategies. The paper uses the available secondary information sources for carrying out its exploration.