Sanjeev Sanyal remarked that the easter half of India is in need of “strong growth hubs”, while replying to Amitabh Kant’s list of 15 cities which contributed 30% of India’s gross domestic product.
Sanyal was responding to Kant, a former chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, who made a post on social media platform X naming the cities.
These cities were Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Surat, Coimbatore, Noida/Greater Noida, Kochi, Gurugram, Vishakhapatnam, and Nagpur.
He said that these cities will be detrimental to help India’s economy reach over 30 trillion economy by 2047, facilitating an extra 1.5% of growth. He emphasised the need for good municipal governance of these cities. “Cities are the engines of India’s future growth, innovation, and job creation,” he said.
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