Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

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.

Decline in common property resources like ponds, forests has led to acceleration of:

Options:

Rural to rural migration

Urban to rural migration

Rural to urban migration

Urban to urban migration

Correct Answer:

Rural to urban migration

Explanation:

This flow of rural-to -urban migration has also been accelerated by the continuous decline of common property resources like ponds, forests and grazing lands.