Mumbai is the densest city in Asia

According to the findings,of the 22 cities,Mumbai,is the densest city in the index with 27,000 people/sq km — more than 27 times more tightly packed than Wuhan,which has less than 1,000 people per square kilometre.

Delhi,Kolkata and Bangalore also feature in the report (see box). “India has witnessed a tremendous economic boom in the last decade,so much so that infrastructure development is yet to keep pace with the needs of the cities — thus affecting the ‘environment friendliness’ or ‘green levels’. But I’m happy to see that the governments have taken various initiatives to identify and overcome these issues by making government buildings green,use of energy efficient transport infrastructure and promoting the use of alternative fuels,” said Armin Bruck,MD,Siemens Ltd.