Urbanization is inevitable as theeconomygrows. Cities are engines of economic Growth and the positive ripple effects of economic growth in urban areas lead to multi-fold increase in EMPLOYMENT andincome levels.
The national Average ofurbanisationin India is 31.16% presently.
Southern Indian states are more urban. The share of urban Population in in 2022, as per Telangana Socio-Economic Outlook 2022, is 46.8%. This puts Telangana among the top three urbanised states in the country along with Tamil Nadu at 48.45%, Kerala at 47.23% andMaharashtraat 45.23%.
Telangana will have more than 50% of its population urban before 2028, with Hyderabad Urban Agglomeration (HUA – the area within Outer Ring Road including Hyderabad) alone having at least 40% of the state’s population by then. This in turn implies that our GSDP will continue to grow faster than the rest of India.
Telangana already has a 20 MW plant running based on Waste to Energy (WTE) from the refuse derived fuel (RDF) at Jawaharnagar under PPP mode. Four new Plants (including doubling the capacity at Jawaharnagar) are under construction and Telangana shall produce 101 MW from WTE by March 2025, utilizing daily waste for the next three decades for HUA – a feat no other city will have in India.
A new legislation – Telangana Municipalities Act was enacted in 2019 replacing a number of archaic Acts. The central theme of this new Act is the citizen and how municipal Services serve the citizens in a time-bound transparent and user-convenient model. Among others, it brings professionalism in preparing and managing municipal budgets.
In order to bring Infrastructure improvements while acknowledging urban growth, the number of ULBs were increased from 68 to 142 in 2019. To strengthen these and also the existing ones, 4,700 crore worth of infrastructure works were sanctioned.