About 45 per cent of the country's population will be residing in urban cities and towns by 2050, up from 30 per cent now, nullifying the 'India lives in villages' concept, says a study by thinktank N

India's burgeoning population has seen a five-fold increase over the last 100 years and will surpass that of China by 2050.

Projections made by the Government show that while India's population grew