MUNICIPALIKA 2012

With the largest wave of urbanization in history in the last decade, nearly half of the world’s population lives in cities. This is projected to increase further with a major growth in Africa and Asia. At present approximately 340 million Indian’s live in nearly 3700 towns and cities spread across the country. This is 30% of the population in contrast to only 60million (15%) lived in urban areas in 1947. In the past five decades, India’s population has grown two and a half times, however urban India has grown by nearly five times. This has created great pressures on the cities and the biggest challenge of “Making Cities Work”. Since the past ten years Municipalika has been instrumental in bringing out these challenges and possible solutions for managing cities in a better way.