page_title: Planned community
section_title: India
hierarchical_section_title: Planned community / Asia / South Asia / Modern history / India
caption_attribution_description: English: Navi Mumbai Skyline
context_page_description: A planned community, planned city, or planned town is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc and organic fashion.
  The term new town refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Native American villages.
context_section_description: The period following independence saw India being defined into smaller geographical regions. New states such as Gujarat were formed with planned capital cities.
  The major planned cities of India include:
  Amaravati, a new city planned to become the capital of Andhra Pradesh
  Auroville
  Bhilai, planned township in Chhattisgarh
  Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Odisha
  Bidhannagar, Kolkata (Salt Lake City), planned township near Kolkata
  Bokaro Steel City
  Chandigarh India's first planned city
  Dhule, Maharashtra, a city planned by the renowned architect of India, Sir Vishveshwarayya.
  Dispur  first planned city in Assam
  Durgapur India's second planned city
  Gurgaon
  Gandhinagar
  Jamshedpur, planned township in Jharkhand
  Kalyani
  Lavasa
  Manesar (Gurgaon)
  Mohali
  Navi Mumbai, World's largest planned city. Contains a population of 2.6 million.
  Naya Raipur, the upcoming capital of Chhattisgarh
  New Delhi
  New Gurgaon
  NOIDA
  Panchkula, planned city near Chandigarh & part of Chandigarh Tricity 
  Patiala
  Palava
  Pimpri-Chinchwad
  Rajarhat (New Town, Kolkata), a planned township near Kolkata
  Rourkela
  Sri Ganganagar
  Udaipur
  Visakhapatnam
  Vijayawada
  Bhopal Habibganj Township.
  Gairsain
caption: Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra[24]
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