The capital New Delhi, home to 17 million people, is a symbol of India's rapid economic growth. This growth has attracted at least half a million Indians from rural areas and other states, who come here looking for work every year.<br /><br />New Delhi benefits greatly from a growing workforce, essential to the city's transport system, household work and markets. However, this massive migration is stretching the city's resources, making the basics, like housing, electricity, sanitation and education a luxury inaccessible to many.<br /><br />The latest census figures show that 32 per cent of Indians living in major cities stay in a single room.<br /><br />With more people arriving in the city with dreams of a better life, the challenge for New Delhi will be to include everyone rather than the privileged few and to improve the city's settlement policies.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports from New Delhi.
