Sustainable Cities and Communities with Decent Work and Economic Growth Opportunities in India

Sustainable development of cities and communities in India is an uphill task due to its huge population, limited natural resources, and few employment opportunities. Unplanned urban growth and population explosion in several metropolitan cities led to severe shortage of civic amenities like housing, drinking water, and sanitation and put pressure on civic administration to develop infrastructure and amenities. The surge in urban population is due to migration from rural areas mainly driven by wide gap in urban and rural employment opportunities. Decent work and employment opportunities to urban youth can be achieved by rapid growth of urban economy for which several schemes were launched by the government to generate employment for urban youth. The federal and state governments are working to arrest rural to urban influx by developing infrastructure and employment in rural areas at par with urban areas. Strong initiatives and sustained long-term efforts are required from federal agencies to generate employment in both urban and rural areas and to arrest rural to urban migration to attain the objective of development of sustainable cities and communities with decent work and growth opportunities.