URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

AUTHOR – RAINCY* & DR BHAWNA ARORA**

* STUDENT AT UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY

** ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT UTTARANCHAL UNIVERSITY, LAW COLLEGE DEHRADUN

BEST CITATION – RAINCY & DR BHAWNA ARORA, URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 5 (10) OF 2025, PG. 866-871, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

Introduction

Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, 70 percent of the population will be urban. India has been witnessing massive urbanization. Over the six decades since independence, India’s population grew three-fold from 350 million in 1947 to 1027 million in the year in 2001. During the same period, the urban population grew almost 4.6 fold as fast – from 62.4 million to 286 million (Census 2001). Thus, the Independent India has been urbanising very fast. The process of urbanization has been closely linked with pattern of economic development in the country. Although the process of urbanization in India could not be explained fully by the process of economic development, it is positively linked with the latter.¹