Mumbai's boast of 24x7 power was severely put to the test earlier this year. We managed by borrowing from other states and biding those sweltering summer months (and it gets progressively hotter doesn't it?). Come next summer and get ready for begging and borrowing again. Have a look at the chart below. (Source: Link. Download as excel file: Link).
Yet again, the city will find itself in a bind because there are no new sources of power considering that all three power suppliers (Reliance, BEST and Tata Power) will be increasing output in the next one year. Leave alone development, here we're talking basic amenities in our city. Wonder if the ministers should start praying from now on itself.
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Did you know that
Delhi is India’s Biggest City?
For more than 20 years, Mumbai has been officially considered the biggest metropolitan area in India in population.
Now two demographers with the Washington, DC-based Population Reference Bureau have found that if the same definition for measuring Mumbai’s and Kolkata’s population is applied to Delhi, then Delhi is the biggest city.
In India, an urban agglomeration is defined as a continuous urban spread constituting the urban population of a town or city and its adjoining urban outgrowths, or two or more physically contiguous towns together with their outgrowths.
But India defines its urban agglomerations in a somewhat quirky way. They cannot cross state boundaries. This has no effect on the population size of Kolkata and Greater Mumbai UA, which are located far from state borders. But it does affect Delhi’s official population size.
Any visitor to Delhi would immediately realize that excluding its major suburban industrial and residential areas in neighboring states from the urban agglomeration population leaves the city at a distinct disadvantage compared to other UAs. When driving from Delhi to contiguous Faridabad city in Haryana state, one scarcely notices any change in the surroundings. But even contiguous suburban cities and towns such as Faridabad and Gurgaon in neighboring Haryana, and Ghaziabad in neighboring Uttar Pradesh, cannot be included in the Delhi UA.
Click on http://www.prb.org/Articles/2007/delhi.aspx for the full article and links to supporting information, including related tables for Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata.
Sandra - Thanks very much for that link and your comment. Very interesting and informative!
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