Our big cities are now facing the worst of times. Traffic jams, pollution, rising cost of every single commodity, very bad standards of living, complexity of education and so on, have made citizens feel that they are living in the worst of times.

As a solution, experts have proposed satellite cities. In every city, such satellite cities develop, as a matter of routine, without any Government support. For example, Hosur, near Bangalore, or Chengelput, near Chennai. Thsese satellite cities have developed on their own, of course due to some private initiative. Near Chengelput, for example, there has been one private sector Special Economic Zone, the Mahindra IT Park.

Do such satellite cities lead to less of congestion and pollution in the main city? What steps should the Government take to develop such satellite cities?