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NEW DELHI: India's two top metros, Mumbai and Delhi, still lack what it takes to be world class cities. In a United Nations report on world's cities, India's financial capital ranked 52 among 95 cities while the political capital came in 58th.

The State of World's Cities report released by UN Habitat on Wednesday, ranked cities on five parameters of "prosperity". While Shanghai, Beijing and Bangkok were all ranked higher than the two Indian cities, Kathmandu and Dhaka came in below Delhi. The five parameters were productivity, infrastructure, quality of life, environmental sustainability and equity.

The report says while conceptually, prosperity is usually related to economic growth, but it has to do with more than just "economic well-being and material progress". The two Indian cities were "half-way to prosperity" and "political and technical" interventions were needed to improve conditions, said Eduardo Lopez Moreno, head of the city monitoring branch of UN Human Settlement Programme, while launching the global report on Wednesday.

For the first time, UN Habitat has ranked all the cities on five common parameters. "Delhi and Mumbai are doing moderately. They are comparatively better (but) there is ample scope for improvement," Moreno said.

He said both Indian cities had an overall low ranking because of their poor record in environment index - primarily due to high air pollution. Mumbai, which scored 0.645 on a scale of one in the productivity index, left cities like Cape Town, Jakarta and Casablanca far behind. He added that while public transport in Mumbai is better and more accessible than in Delhi, there is enough scope for improvement.

Responding to the report, A K Mishra, Union housing and urban poverty alleviation secretary, said the Centre needs to take a more holistic view of the problem and not just formulate schemes to tackle one aspect of city development. "Unless we integrate infrastructure development and prosperity with concepts like equality and quality of life, the city is not going to be livable," he said.

The report for the first time has exposed the trend of how city planning and urban development always protect the interest of the rich. It says that in many cities, urban planning has been controlled by the real estate business. "Cities that report to the interests of the better off or only focus on strategic economic interventions in specific spaces, tend to create enclaves of prosperity for a select few," it says.

It has also quoted a portion of the UN Habitat policy analysis in 50 cities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Arab States (2011), which shows that up to 80% local experts (in countries) believe the benefits of economic prosperity mainly serve the interests of politicians and the wealthy.

"Through political influence, bribery and corruption, these powerful groups manage to distort urban plans, dodge spatial or legal rules, reduce the production of public goods and manipulate the power of eminent domain; in the process they capture unfair shares of a city's potential, resources and prosperity to the detriment of large, poor majorities of urban populations," the report says.

Delhi, Mumbai far from being world class cities, says UN - The Times of India
 
Who says delhi and mumbai are worldclass citites...India developing but still long way to go.
 
Karachi could be a world class city Far more better than delhi and Mumbai! if dealt properly by Pakistan by kicking Mullahs, pathans and MQM terrorists!

Firstly all Indians know that Delhi and Mumbai are not world class cities. There is a huge room for improvement.

Problem is with slums. Both cities are having world class metros, monorails, and now supertalls. Both cities soon will have top 10 airports in the world. But certain portions of these cities have inflow of people from villages who have no place to live. They start all these slums and govt and mafias play politics on them.

Now coming to Karachi. Just like every city Karachi also has potential for being a world class city, but right now it is atleast 20 yrs away from even achieving development standards of current Mumbai and Delhi. You need to visit these cities to see the pace at which the building is happening especially in Mumbai. Its staggerring more than 600 buildings under cons all over the city.
 
Some part of Delhi might just look like world class but whoole city is full of $hits..
And Mumbai !! never..:no: There is lot of room for improvement and good thing is that our gov is working on it..
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And one question to chinese buddies, a world class city has good environment servivability... But somewhere I have read one article saying beijing is one of the worlds polluted city.. Is it true ??:what:
 
Firstly all Indians know that Delhi and Mumbai are not world class cities. There is a huge room for improvement.

Problem is with slums. Both cities are having world class metros, monorails, and now supertalls. Both cities soon will have top 10 airports in the world. But certain portions of these cities have inflow of people from villages who have no place to live. They start all these slums and govt and mafias play politics on them.

Now coming to Karachi. Just like every city Karachi also has potential for being a world class city, but right now it is atleast 20 yrs away from even achieving development standards of current Mumbai and Delhi. You need to visit these cities to see the pace at which the building is happening especially in Mumbai. Its staggerring more than 600 buildings under cons all over the city.

do all indians think tht the development is just building tall buildings only??
i mean than by ur standards even europe is under developed, Plus most of the developments in Karachi in the last decade is infa development cz we dont need tall buildings yet (Karachi is not dansely populated)
just compare the roads & infa of Karachi with tht of mumbai may be mumbai will look better in aerial view due to some tall buildings but on the ground level its really behind Karachi.....i think the developments of indian cities should be start from ground first.

Plus in South Asia Islamabad is the only city which can be categorized as world class.....with no offense
 
I think Navi Mumbai (new mumbai) should be transformed into a worldclass city ,its already the world's largest planned city . The main mumbai city has become too conjested....navi mumbai already has a decent skyline
 
Its also due to lack of planning from our colonial and indian ancestors.

Its thanks to the planning of the Brits and planners from 47 to mid 60's that these two cities are still alive.

But planning alone does not make cities - the execution does. In colonies designed with plots we have now pulled down the houses & built flats with no regard for water, sewage, parking. play grounds .. et all.

How can you blame anyone but ourselves.

@ the topic , no Indian city is even close to being world class.
 
do all indians think tht the development is just building tall buildings only??
i mean than by ur standards even europe is under developed, Plus most of the developments in Karachi in the last decade is infa development cz we dont need tall buildings yet (Karachi is not dansely populated)
just compare the roads & infa of Karachi with tht of mumbai may be mumbai will look better in aerial view due to some tall buildings but on the ground level its really behind Karachi.....i think the developments of indian cities should be start from ground first.

Plus in South Asia Islamabad is the only city which can be categorized as world class.....with no offense

Dude you can start with comparing which city have suburban railways like local trains, monorails and metro rail. That's why Karachi is called a beta city which shows it lags far behind Delhi or Mumbai.
 

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