Identify the impact of urbanisation in villages which are near the in…

The correct answer is Option (2) → creates problems of ordering relationships between the native residents and the immigrants

Option (1) The growth of metropolitan cities — Incorrect. The growth of metropolitan cities is the third type of urban impact that M.S.A. Rao describes, the impact on the villages round a growing metropolis, not on villages near an industrial town.

Option (2) creates problems of ordering relationships between the native residents and the immigrants — Correct. This is Rao’s second kind of urban impact. When an industrial town like Bhilai comes up in the midst of villages, some are uprooted and others lose part of their land. These receive an influx of immigrant workers, which stimulates a demand for houses and a market inside the village but also creates problems of ordering relationships between the native residents and the immigrants.

Option (3) Villages get transformed into cities — Incorrect. Villages are swallowed by the city under the third type, where a few villages are totally absorbed in the expansion of a metropolis. Villages near an industrial town stay villages, with newcomers living among the old residents.

Option (4) New types of crops grow because of demand of outsiders — Incorrect. What the immigrant workers create is a demand for houses and a market inside the village. Their arrival changes who lives in the village, not what its fields grow, and much of the land round such villages has been acquired for the town.