Jakarta’s city centre was planned to support a population of 500,000. India should do the same with our state capitals. The Union government can create fiscal and other incentives to encourage state governments to shift their capitals to brown- or green-field locations. New York and Los Angeles might be the biggest cities in New York state and California, but the state capitals are located in Albany and Sacramento. The policy objective of building new state capitals is to create millions of new jobs, economic hubs and decongest old cities.

Source: Mint May 10, 2019 12:11 UTC