Rationale for making big cities Union Territories(UTs)

Abstract :
To understand the rationale of making big cities as UTs (Union Territories) one needs to ponder over what happens when :

''the big cities, towns, villages (big meaning each has exceeded a set limit in its category) are pulled out of the  control of the locals to be placed under the control of the next higher  level."

In this context the pertinent questions to be answered would be :
1) Does such a policy restrain the efforts of the society, the one  immediately larger  than the city, town or village under question, to fulfill their aspirations of geographic equity in development?
2) Does it curtail the forces of vested interests, usually of the local city/town/village origin but may be in collusion with those of the outsiders which may be down right anti social and illegal?
Our answer is a big "No" to the first and a big "Yes" to the second of these questions.

The details: 
1. The meaning of the transferring the control of a big city / town /village to the higher level

2. The vested interests and geographic inequity in development 

3. A mechanism to reign in the vested forces

4. Summary

1. The meaning of the transferring the control of a big city / town /village to the higher level: 
1.a) First  let us understand the term society immediately larger than the city, town or village under question.
Say it is a city of a district in a state. Then the entire district (of which the city is a part) would be the immediately larger society.
1.b) Other examples:
Say it is the capital of the state which usually is the biggest city in most of the states: then the neighboring states and then the whole country would be the immediately larger society around the city.
On the other hand, if it is a village in a mandal, then  the immediately larger society would be the entire  mandal or tehsil that includes the village.
On the lower extreme, if a ward  of a municipality or a big panchayat is becoming big, then the entire municipality or the entire panchayat would be the immediately larger society.

2. The vested interests and geographic inequity in development: 
2.a) Some forces of the local city/town/village would invariably tend to develop vested interests in making it ever bigger even at the cost of the others in their immediately larger  society.
The greed would drive them to thoughtless exploitation of the  resources of the  area (physical resources such as sand & minerals or ground water, land - buildings - infrastructure etc., or others like jobs, funds etc.,)
2.b) The vested interests drive the above exploitation even if it be destructive to the society and even when such undue exploitation is out right illegal.
2.c) The above reckless and even unethical or illegal exploitation  then gets extended to what ever resources that the entire, immediately bigger society has.
2.d) Retaining the  administrative/political control in the local area would then be vitally necessary to serve or shield their private vested interests from the norms and law.
2.e) Thus, through a vicious cycle, the geographic inequity in development intensifies   leading to social unrest and tensions. It is exactly these- the social unrest and tensions - which not only sustain but become fertile breeding grounds for the rise of vested interests in politics, business  and transcend even into religious arena.


3. A mechanism to reign in the vested forces:
3.a)  The loss of undue control over the city/town/village  to the vested forces would make it increasingly difficult for these forces  to  duck behind current practice of democracy with a multiplicity of loopholes.
3.b) It is the perceived loss by of the  political / administrative control by the forces of local  vested interests which would be the biggest  restraint in letting the city / town / village go to that of the next level.
3.c) Surely many other measures would be needed in addition to the above to completely reign in the unscrupulous nexus of the vested forces from making unholy alliances.But the most important would be to clean up our human resource development all the way  from preschool (KG and  lower ) to post school(PG and more)  levels covering R&D.

4. Summary:
It would indeed be interesting to mine for any rational reason in opposing  the mega cities from coming under the direct control of the parliament. After all, they are all built by all the Indians with the assets of the entire nation.  But for the possibility of a severe constraint of the vested forces of all hues & shades,  why would even the primarily religious forces think of opposing the very idea of Hyderabad  or Bombay from becoming Union Territories (UT) directly under the control of the parliament?