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Satellite Town Development in India in Retrospect and Prospect: A Case of Navi Mumbai
Satellite Town Development in India in Retrospect and Prospect: A Case of Navi Mumbai
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Amit Chatterjee
Assistant Professor, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
amit.chatterjee@spabhopal.ac.in
Soumendu Chatterjee
Head, Department of Geography, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
scgeovu@yahoo.co.in
Abstract : In the early 1960’s urban development policies in India focused on growth control strategies of Metropolitan
cities and the idea of new town/counter magnet/satellite town/ring town emerged widely. Unlike many other planned
cities in India, Navi Mumbai (also known as New Bombay) was specifically built as a planned decentralization to the
larger metropolis in 1971. Literature evidences stated that by 1971, the year when construction of Navi Mumbai started,
there were already112 new towns in different scale (both in terms of area and population sizes) in existence. In 1971,
City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) was formed as the officially designated Town Planning
Authority to undertake the planning and development of the largest (344 sq.km.) green-field urban development project
in India. One of the main objectives of designing Navi Mumbai was to create a self-sufficient urban settlement to reduce
the growth of population in Mumbai city that would absorb immigrants and also attract some of Bombay’s population.
The success of Navi Mumbai was thought of in adequate creation of jobs and accordingly 750,000 jobs for a population
of 2 million was anticipated. This paper attempts to find out the objectives and purpose for which Navi Mumbai was
planned originally and to ascertain the extent to which those objectives are achieved after four decades of its origin. The
paper will focus on the demographic, housing and economic aspects of satellite city development experiences and it
shall trace the success, failure and future development prospect of satellite city.
ISSUE 8, 2014 S P A N D R E L