In the context of Indian urban planning around the 2001 period, particularly concerning schemes like the Mega City Project (launched in 1993-94), cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad were specifically included. Ahmedabad was a large metro but was not initially part of this specific 'Mega City' grouping or project. Standard global definition of Megacity (>10 million population) would exclude all options except possibly parts of the wider UAs of Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad reaching higher figures combined with suburban areas, but based on city/UA population, only Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata were >10 million in
As per 2001 Census which one of the following is not a Megacity of India ?
Asked in UPPSC Upper Mains 2005 · Topic: India: Urbanization (Growth and distribution of urban settlements: Mega-cities, metropolitan areas, and smaller towns)
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