City in a mouth hugli. The first decades after a gain

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In the first decades after a gain of independence the government could not allocate for needs of a city some considerable means. In 1970 Management on development of the Big Calcutta, before which task in view of the complex decision of city problems has been created. Water supply first of all improves. The city began to receive daily 30 gallons of water per capita instead of 20. Many streets and roads extend, bridges and overpasses are under construction. Some large overpasses, such, as the bridge of name Aurobindo where terrible transport stoppers before were created already operate. With assistance of Soviet Union building of the line of underground first in the country approaches to end. Having connected the airport with a southern part of a city, the underground considerably will reduce a sharpness of transport problems. As it is impossible to liquidate at once slums in which there lives third of population of a city, their accomplishment is conducted. Certain steps and to more cardinal decision of housing problem become. At the first stage the extreme program of building about 80 thousand apartments for bednjatskih and sredneoplachivaemyh families and an accomplishment of premises of 600 elementary schools is undertaken.

In the Big Calcutta on the area of 1450 square kilometres lives now more than 9 million persons. Meanwhile the city population grows promptly. Under the influence of socio-economic factors, and sometimes and acts of nature annually ten thousand people from villages direct to Calcutta. It is expected, that by 1986 its population will reach 12 million persons. And nowadays population density in a city three times above, than in New York, also made in the late seventies 30 thousand persons on one square kilometre. To liquidate slums, it is necessary to build a minimum of 50 thousand apartments annually for many years. Created three new large water-purifying stations completely will not solve a water supply problem, after all per capita it is required on norms of 60 gallons in day - twice more than that the population receives now.