1. Urban Risks
Taranjot K Gadhok
Chief Projects , Hudco

2. The Urbanizing World
• By the year 2025, half the world’s population will reside in
Urban areas and 90% of this would be in developing nations
• Most troubling manifestation of this transformation is the
growth of mega-cities.
• There would be 100 mega cities(pop>10million) in the world.
• India’s major concern is mere numbers
• Growth of Urban population is twice the rate of its total
population.Major growth in 1 million cities which have
increased from 23 in1991 and to around 35 by 2001

3. Increasing Mega cities
In 1950 ten of the 15 most populous cities were in industrial countries.
by 2015 there will be only three mega-cities in industrial countries among
the top 15
An Era of mega-cities …..