This tool has been created by IDFC Institute,Urban Expansion Observatory  at the Mahatma Education Society and Valectus in Mumbai to allow users to explore in granular detail,the form that urban growth is taking across India.

The data here shows the distribution of built-up area , Settlement and population for four time periods: 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2014 along with Nighttime Light data. Additionally, the user can enable layers to display the major roads to visualize how urban growth has been occurring around road networks as well as zoom to indian cities to understand urban growth of same.

The built-up, Settlement density and population layer data has been extracted from the Global Human Settlement Layer (see link for more info)
    For more details on the background and methodology,please see link.
    Basemaps courtesy of Mapbox, Open Street Maps and DigitalGlobe, PostgreSQL 9.5 for data storage, Geoserver 2.11.2 for processing and OpenLayers 3 (JavaScript) for front-end development.

Data Download link
For further queries, please contact kshitij.batra@idfcinstitute.org.