Given that India’s urban areas contribute to nearly two-thirds of its gross domestic product, even though they account … for only 31% of the country’s population, they have been rightly called the engines of India’s growth. In this paper, I … competitiveness of India’s cities. This paper uses standard Census of India data at the level of the city, to compute location …

India. It has also unfavorably affected the realization of the full potential of the urban sector's contribution to national … gross domestic product in India. From this perspective, by considering the population in Class I cities (cities with more … size of urban populations of large cities in India. Secondly, it assesses the status of class I cities in India as per the …