Solution to overcrowded Indian metros?

In 2004 I read a page-long feature in The Hindu by a retired IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officet, K S Ramakrishnan, called ‘Taking Cities to the People’ where he talked about developing our tier II cities in an effort to “divert” our job seeking population from our main metros.  The full article can be accessed here.

Three years later, it seems the Indian government has finally begun work in earnest on such a project.  The International Herald Tribune recently carried a story by Anand Giridharadas that Nagpur, bang in the geographical center of our country, has been awarded the distinction of being the first town to be developed. 

© Sosha Srinivasan