Which of the following is a direct impact of an industrial town on the surrounding villages?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Influx of immigrant workers and increase in demand for houses.
Option (2) Influx of immigrant workers and increase in demand for houses. — Correct. When an industrial town like Bhilai comes up among villages, some villages are totally uprooted and the lands of others are partly acquired. These villages then receive an influx of immigrant workers, which stimulates a demand for houses and a market inside the village (M.S.A. Rao).
NCERT (2025-26): “Urbanisation in Independent India … Writing on the different kinds of urbanisation witnesses in the first two decades after independence sociologist 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 in the box.”
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