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Many problems of Calcutta are characteristic and for other large Indian cities. They-generations of the capitalist urbanization occurring in the semifeudal country, gone through two-centuries colonial domination, and complicated by that name now a population explosion.

For one decade, with 1971 for 1981, the population of the Indian cities has increased on 49 million persons, having reached in 1981 156,2 million. And if for 30 with superfluous years after a gain India independence all its population has almost doubled, having made 683 million in 1981 the urban population has grown in 2,8 times and, by estimates of demographers, to the end of the century more than will treble. The large cities, exceeding 100 thousand persons especially quickly grow. Among them in 1981 the population of twelve cities exceeded a million mark, including eight-million Bombay, five-million Delhi and four-million Madras. Ten more cities come nearer to this mark.

Prompt growth of the Indian cities, certainly, is caused by fast increase in the population of the country. But it, undoubtedly, would not be so rough if social and economic problems of village where about 80 percent of the population of the country are still concentrated have been solved. The Indian village differs mass malozemelem and bezzemelem. In 1981 in it was 153 million the landless agricultural workers, many of them are occupied not completely or at all have no work. More than 39 percent of country economy have plots less than one hectare or have no earth in general. And it is natural, to many agricultural workers, landless and malozemelnyh peasants the city is represented hardly probable not to extract unique possibility to itself means of subsistence. These made destitute direct in cities alone and the whole families, bringing with themselves and new problems.

One Indian economists and sociologists put forward various projects not to admit the further growth of cities. Others see the decision of problems on ways of accurate planning of their development. According to the known demographer of professor Ashisha the Boss, an urbanization - an essential element of process of transformation of the Indian society, economic growth and social changes. It is necessary not to limit it is artificial growth of cities, he considers, and to carry out an urbanization produmanno, on a planned basis and in interests of broad masses of workers.