LiveMint carried a piece on the pertinent question of "How much of India is actually urban?" using data from IDFC work on Urbanisation. Excerpts below:
"Under the census definition, 31% of the Indian population lived in urban areas in 2011. But the share of urban population which lives in t...
Yoginder K. Alagh, in this Indian Express article, argues that "recognition [by] senior policymakers in the government that many so-called large villages are really urban areas but are not classified as towns on account of various reasons is a step in the right direction. Demographers...
