Urban Sprawl, Challenges and Peoples’ Response

‘Rain leaves a trail of destruction in Shimla, 150 trees uprooted, damaging 20 buildings, vehicles buried under debris, 66 families vacate houses’, (Chauhan 2018: 10), a commoved media report, shakes human consciousness and raises wide ranging public responses. These reactions of society—verbal and symbolic voiced through print and electronic media, legal and legislative coming up from time to time explain the reality of the situation.