Our big cities are now facing the worst of times. Traffic jams, pollution, rising cost of every single commodity, very bad standards of living, complexity of education and so on, have made citizens feel that they are living in the worst of times.
As a solution, experts have proposed satellite cities. In every city, such satellite cities develop, as a matter of routine, without any Government support. For example, Hosur, near Bangalore, or Chengelput, near Chennai. Thsese satellite cities have developed on their own, of course due to some private initiative. Near Chengelput, for example, there has been one private sector Special Economic Zone, the Mahindra IT Park.
Do such satellite cities lead to less of congestion and pollution in the main city? What steps should the Government take to develop such satellite cities?
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Rising population is villain for our problems. The overall land in the country will not increase but you alsways need more land for railways, roads, hospitals, schools, residences etc. I don't know where this will lead to. Now we have hardly any open space. Now wherever you go, you will find only populated region. There is hardly any space for forests.
There is no substitute for population control. Otherwise we shall be caught in vicius circle. When space on ground is insufficient, you will be making multi torey buildings. If there is less space for trains and no more land for railway lines, you will indulge in double decker or even trile decker trains. In this race for developing colonies, there wil be drastic rduction in forest, cultivable land and wild life sanctuary.
G. K. Ajmani Tax consultant http://gkajmani-mystraythoughts.blogspot.com/
No city can escape from the problems of congestion and pollution over a period even if they are satellite cities, if livelihood arrangements are not taken care in the surrounding cities. I have seen once serene and tranquil coties built away from the city are a picture of clutter, pollution filled with slums. Reasons are obvious.
