Mega cities or future’s mega slums?

The phenomenal increase in the urban population of the developing countries has already thrown up a host of social, economic, managerial and environmental problems. It is hardly difficult to foresee the frightening proportions that these problems would assume in the years to come, says former Governor Jagmohan

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