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One peculiar thing about modern cities, is the scant regard for keeping the city clean and tidy. The indifferent attitude and deliberate neglect by the civic authorities have left cities with dumps of solid and other wastes choking and overflowing sewage and drains, resulted into mud, water storage and dirt everywhere, giving rise to epidemics like malaria, typhoid, dengue every alternate year. Various reasons and factors are responsible for the sordid state of cities. Unplanned growth of colonies, ill management of resources, lack of prudence in planning, sidelining the issues such as pollution, education, slums, cleanliness, etc. ar to a great extent responsible for making cities a nightmare. We can find a temple, a mosque or a shrine at every nook and corner, even in the middle of a road while the basic amenities like water tap or electric pillar are not made available. resources are not properly managed, corruption in institutions responsible for providing basic amenities is of the worst order. Public funds are being misutilised for the aggrandisement of personal or political benefits. Any positives developmental action for replacing or removing the slums or removing the illegal encroachments become political issues and are vehemently opposed and sabotaged by the politicians. There are approximately 350 cities, having population more than one lakh, where proper sanitary, drainage, healthcare seem to be privileges of a handful of people, living in the posh colonies. New Delhi, the capital of India, a metropolitan is passing through the worst crisis of inadequate mass transportation and pollution caused by the vehicular traffic. India's commercial capital Mumbai, is an open mafia territory with more than two murders on an average daily.