Delhi: Bursting at the Seams
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Delhi: Bursting at the Seams
New Delhi is the India’s capital city, and the stronger economic growth has brought about significant change in the area. There is widely access of goods and labor with the ready availability of workforce from the countryside as people flock the city to search for jobs that cannot sustain all of them. With the continued influx of the population in the city, there is a higher rate of expansion in semi-formal settlements with majority living in squatter camps. The regions where the people migrated from to the city are mainly agricultural, and the movement to the town is a shift to fill in job opportunities to earn income that they could send back home.
The geographical content the video covers is massive urban migration that results in the informal settlements advancement in urban areas. Urban migration is a serious problem to the most populous states with regimes rethinking measures to control the exploding population of the cities. Movement presents serious challenges to the infrastructure contributing to the common shortages that attack the cities, increasing population and congestions. The part of the video that caught my attention is the fact of the expansion of the original metropolitan area by almost twenty times. It is much interesting that satellite cities will be developed to meet the needs of the growing population while creating job opportunities.
What I found most interesting is the area of the expansion of the metropolitan region with longer distances in between the cities. The video explains that expanded rails and highway roads to give easy transportation across the area will interconnect the metropolitan region. Factories are deployed in the new areas with the government encouraging foreign direct investment to create more opportunities for the migrants with housing units being developed to accommodate people. The video helped the topic come alive as the plan for the expansion to wider region depicting a burst of the city.