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With 61 per cent of the world population expected to live in cities by 2030, we are in the throes of what is being
called the ‘Century of the city’. Back home in India, the urban population is expected to reach 600 million by 2031,
an increase of nearly 40 per cent from 2011. Rapid urbanization is bringing with itself an extraordinary wave of
challenges including affordable housing, water management, sanitation, health and building climate change-
resilient infrastructure reports Shailaja Sharma

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