Satellite towns

“A Satellite Town is a self-contained and limited in size, built in the vicinity of a large metropolitan city to house and employ those who would otherwise create a demand for

expansion of the existing settlement in metropolitan city, but dependent on the parent-city to a certain extent for major and specialized services”

    

    The concept of satellite town has been emerged to help the metropolitan city in solving the human settlement and absorbs its industrial growth which put enormous pressure on infrastructure and service delivery of metropolitan city.

   The Satellite city is a smaller municipality in the vicinity of metropolitan parent city and can be planned within the natural growth pattern of parent city.

   It has been observed that development of Satellite Town/City requires following offering.

• The Satellite town should offer adequate municipal services such as quality water supply, electricity, sewage treatment and residential townships etc.

• The Satellite Town should offer superior quality social infrastructure such as schools, primary and secondary medical treatment and retail departmental stores.

• Proximity of Metropolitan City and communication network.

• Speedy and Low cost of commuting from Satellite city/Town to Parent Metropolitan City as access to tele- effective services such as universities and airports that only the parent city can offer. This would increase the mobility of people residing in satellite town/city.

• It should have land resources, independent economy and also have strength to absorb the growth of Parent Metropolitan City.