Bangalore Tops The List in India’s Booming Cities
Tech hub Bangalore tops the list in a new Morgan Stanley report on how India’s booming cities cope with problems from infrastructure to job creation. By 2030 India’s cities will be home to about 590 million people – nearly twice the population of the United States today.
Its findings are based on a City Vibrancy Index (CVI), which looks at, among other factors, infrastructure, job opportunities, modern consumer services and a city’s ability to mobilise savings – what it calls key drivers of urbanization.
The report found that second-tier cities Mysore and Meerut came in second and sixth places out of India’s 50 most populated cities. Bangalore, India’s “Silicon Valley”, came in first place, with Pune in third and Hyderabad in fourth while New Delhi, India’s capital, ranked eighth. Mumbai, India’s financial capital, trailing in 21st place. Asia’s third-largest economy is home to one-quarter of the world’s 20 most densely populated cities but the slow pace of urban development has been a drag on economic growth.
Nearly one-quarter of India’s top 200 cities have no car dealership, less than 10 percent have a 5-star hotel, and nearly two-thirds were still waiting for a large-scale retail store or hypermarket, the report found. Over the next two decades, India is expected to see an urban transformation the scale and speed of which has not happened anywhere except China, with many cities becoming larger than many countries, in terms of population size and GDP.
India’s government is trying to bridge the gap and plans to double spending on infrastructure to $1 trillion in its next five-year plan, which runs from 2012-17.
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