M.S.A. Rao describes different situations of impact of urban influences in India. Which of the following is part of the situations of urban impact given by Rao?

(A) When more people start taking up agricultural work
(B) When an industrial town comes up in the midst of villages
(C) When there is an increase in the growth of metropolitan cities
(D) When villagers in sizeable numbers migrate to work in far off cities

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(B), (C) and (D) only

The correct answer is Option (1) → (B), (C) and (D) only

M.S.A. Rao argued that in India many villages all over India are becoming increasingly subject to the impact of urban influences. But the nature of urban impact varies according to the kind of relations a village has with a city or town. He describes three different situations of urban impact as mentioned below:

Firstly, there are villages in which a sizeable number of people have sought employment in far-off cities. They live there leaving behind the members of their families in their natal villages.

The second kind of urban impact is to be seen in villages which are situated near an industrial town...When an industrial town like Bhilai comes up in the midst of villages, some villages are totally uprooted while the lands of others are partially acquired. The latter are found to receive an influx of immigrant workers, which not only stimulates a demand for houses and a market inside the village but creates problems of ordering relationships between the native residents and the immigrants.

The growth of metropolitan cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages...While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development