There are Only Seven 'Five Million Plus' Cities in India - Kolkata is not in this list

THERE ARE ONLY SEVEN 'FIVE MILLION PLUS' CITIES IN INDIA

There are thirteen cities with more than 2 million population in India and out of these nine are with population more than 4 million as per 2011 population census. Further, only seven have over five million population. These seven cities, in order of its population, are Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Pune.  These cities do not include the population of its urban agglomerations. The following table gives the details. 

City	State	Population (2011)	Population (2001)	Percentage Change
Mumbai	Maharashtra	12,478,447	11,978,450	4.17
Delhi	Delhi	11,007,835	9,879,172	11.42
Bangalore	Karnataka	8,425,970	5,438,065	54.94
Hyderabad	Telangana	6,809,970	3,637,483	87.22
Chennai	Tamil Nadu	6,560,242	4,681,087	40.14
Ahmedabad	Gujarat	6,352,254	3,520,085	80.46
Pune	Maharashtra	5,049,968	2,538,473	98.94
Surat	Gujarat	4,585,367	2,433,835	88.40
Kolkata	West Bengal	4,486,679	4,572,876	-1.88
Jaipur	Rajasthan	3,073,350	2,322,575	32.33
Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	2,815,601	2,185,927	28.81
Kanpur	Uttar Pradesh	2,767,031	2,551,337	8.45
Nagpur	Maharashtra	2,405,421	2,052,066	17.22

One may note that the ranks of the various multi million cities in India has been now not the same as seen in the year 2001, as the change in respect of various cities had been quite significantly different over the last inter-census years. The highest change was observed in case of Pune followed by Surat, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai and so on.  Kolkata has even witnessed negative change and Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune and Surat have surpassed it.  Jaipur and Lucknow have also surpassed the Kanpur city.

As of now, there are only two ten million plus cities in India.  These two cities are growing with less growth.  Over next ten years i.e., in 2021, if the above percentage change continues, Bangalore may be having rank 1 in the above list.  And Bangalore and Hyderabad may even have more population than Delhi and the rank of Delhi would be 4.  Ahmedabad would be with rank 5, followed by Pune with rank 6.  In such scenario, there would be six ten million plus cities instead of two and eight cities would be with eight million plus population. Kolkata may be having less than five million population and would be clubbed with the second tier cities namely, Jaipur, Lucknow, Kanpur and Nagpur. One may have to wait to see which ones of these would be smart cities.