Hyderabad is set to become a megacity, with a population more than 1 Crore, over the next decade. Hyderabad is one of the 4 cities in India that will become megacities over the next decade. Hyderabad’s population more than doubled since 1990 but it ranked almost same as 38th most populous city now and then. The city’s population is estimated to increase to 1.277 crore by 2030, becoming the 28th most populous city in the world by 2030. In its 2014 revision of its report ‘World Urbanisation Prospects’, the United Nations’ department of Economic and Social Affairs stated that Hyderabad’s population would reach 89.44 lakh by 2015. China alone has 6 megacities and 10 large cities with populations between 5 and 10 million in 2014, and ...

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