Read the following passage and answer question based on the concept. Considered from an urban point of view, the rapid growth in urbanization shows that the town or city has been acting as a magnet for the rural population. Those who cannot find work (or sufficient work) in the rural areas go to the city in search of work. This flow of rural-to-urban migration has also been accelerated by the continuous decline of common property resources like ponds, forests and grazing land. These common resources enabled poor people to survive in the villages although they owned little or no land. Now, these resources have been turned into private property, or they are exhausted. (Ponds may run dry and no longer provide enough fish; forests may have been cut down and have vanished. If people no longer have access to these resources, but on the other hand have to buy many things in the market that they used to get free (like fuel, fodder or supplementary food items), then their hardship increases. This hardship is worsened by the fact that opportunities for cash income are limited in the villages. |
Urbanisation is not only impacting the number of people migration to urban areas, but also impacting: |
Increased interaction of urban people Increased resources for rural people left behind Decline in socio- economic significances of agrarian way of life Increased resources of urban people |
Decline in socio- economic significances of agrarian way of life |
It is not a question of numbers alone; processes of modern development ensure that the economic and social significance of the agrarianrural way of life declines relative to the significance of the industrial-urban way of life. |