Which of the following are satellite towns?
A. Bhopal
B. Chennai
C. Ghaziabad
D. Gurugram
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → C and D only
A satellite town grows up around a metropolitan city and lives closely tied to it.
A. Bhopal Incorrect. Bhopal is an administrative town, the headquarters of a state, not a town round a bigger city.
B. Chennai Incorrect. Chennai is itself a metropolitan city and an administrative town, the kind of city around which satellite towns grow.
C. Ghaziabad Correct. It is one of the old towns that developed as satellite towns around Delhi.
D. Gurugram Correct. Along with Ghaziabad and Rohtak, Gurugram is named as a satellite town around Delhi.
NCERT (2025-26): “Evolution of Towns in India … After independence, a large number of towns have been developed as administrative headquarters, e.g., Chandigarh, Bhubaneswar, Gandhinagar, Dispur, etc., and industrial centres, such as Durgapur, Bhilai, Sindri, Barauni. Some old towns also developed as satellite towns around metropolitan cities, such as Ghaziabad, Rohtak, Gurugram around Delhi. With increasing investment in rural areas, a large number of medium and small towns have developed all over the country.” “Administrative towns and cities … Towns supporting administrative headquarters of higher order are administrative towns, such as Chandigarh, New Delhi, Bhopal, Shillong, Guwahati, Imphal, Srinagar, Gandhinagar, Jaipur, Chennai, etc.…” |