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For the first time I have visited Madras in 1963, and the first, that this sharp increase in its population has rushed to me to eyes when in ten years I have appeared again in this city. Since a dawn till late night in streets the human whirlpool rages. For ten years the city population has grown on one million. In 1981 in Madras lived already 4,2 million person.

On trunk mains of Madras and on its suburbs there is a considerable building. Is more subcentral cities large hotels, buildings of various establishments are constructed. Near the centre as mushrooms grow in silent streets elegant private residences of bourgeoisie and a middle class top. These private residences hide behind beautiful fencings and kushchami blossoming all colours of a rainbow of ornamental shrubs. Last years in such quarters modern many-storeyed buildings with the big arranged well apartments are under construction also. But in these luxurious private residences and apartments there live only 5 percent of urban population.

In okrainnyh areas, such as Kodambakkam, Sajdapet, quarters multiroom grow, mostly two - three-storyed houses. City housing management sells their small close flats by instalments to small employees, teachers - that who under local standards has average incomes. Apartment houses erect some departments, the large enterprises of public sector.

But, despite intensive building, the city population tests the sharpest lack of habitation. In many okrainnyh areas of Madras fetid slums in which there lives almost a quarter of the population of a city have still remained. The city authorities take vigorous measures on a pulling down of these nurseries of insanitary conditions and resettlement of their inhabitants in new houses. To the beginning of 1980 in new apartments it has been moved from hovels more than 35 thousand families. The next years it is planned to construct 150 thousand more apartments.

Spontaneous growth of a city has improbably complicated also all other problems closely intertwining among themselves: maintenance of the population with water, medical aid, schools, automobiles and, at last, work.