Excelsior Correspondent
Hyderabad, June 20: The Urban population and accompanied advantages are likely to hit the 50 percent mark in Telangana by 2025. This is two and half decades ahead of all other States in the country.
As of now the national average of the urban population in the country stood at 31.16 per cent in the total population and Telangana recorded 46.8 percent in its total population at the same period.
These averages were registered in the Niti Aayog revelations and only two States Tamil Nadu and Kerala are ahead of Telangana in this aspect.
Among the top three urbanised states Tamil Nadu records an average of 48.45 percent urban population among its total population while Kerala recorded 47.23 per cent. Maharashtra followed Telangana with 45.23 per cent.
The Niti Aayog while considering the cities as the engines of economic growth feels the ripple effect of economic activities in urban areas would lead to multi-fold increase in employment and income levels.
It may be recalled that the progressive urban policies and initiatives of the State government have helped the State to secure expansion of urban areas and urban population effectively. The initiatives of the government to increase the number of urban local bodies subsequent to the formation of Telangana State Heave helped the transformation of urban landscape in the State.
Though the existing urban local bodies constitute less than three per cent of the land mass in the State, the same region contributes close to two thirds of the State’s GDP and it may be one of the reasons why the population and man power is attracted to the urban areas in the State.
Mercer rated Hyderabad as the best city in India in the “Quality of living index” for six consecutive years and this can be taken as a bench mark of the government’s interest towards attaining development in the State.
While the population increase in the urban local bodies and urban areas are making the State a major achiever on the urbanisation, the State is likely to inch towards fifty per cent urban population covered area by 2025. The Niti Aayog as per the CEO Amitabh Kanth is predicting the same urbanisation process would be achieved in the country by 2050.
Thus the State of Telangana is two and a half decades ahead of its counter parts and Hyderabad being at the top of the table with major achievements remained to be the number one.
The city tops in purchasing power index, safety index, healthcare index, cost of living index, property price to income ratio index, traffic commute time index and pollution or climate index respectively.
The city though not competing with any other urban part of the country remained one among the 30 major cities in the world to achieve the quality and economic competitiveness.
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