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India's great failure in the 20th century has been its inability to nurture urban centers outside a handful of major metros. So everyone floods into Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi because there are no jobs anywhere else. Capital cities in other states have nowhere near the quality of jobs on offer in these 3-4 major metros.

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I think you forgot Hyderabad and maybe Chennai. I generally agree with you, but I would expand your list a bit.

Bangalore's loss is going to be Hyderabad's gain. Bangalore's traffic and water woes will drive more and more companies to switch to nearby Hyderabad.

Though I do wonder how the downturn in the automobile sector is going to affect Chennai in the long-run

Its not India's great failure. It is India's great achievement. We need to move people rapidly from rural area to urban cities and India is doing an awesome job at it.

Yes, but urban cities. Not "just 3-4 urban cities".

I think urban areas of around 30-40mn are doable. We just need around 30 cities to take most of the population.

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