Urbanization In India: Causes and Consequences

Urbanization in India has been a process since the Indus valley civilization though slow and steady. As per the UN report going by the current trend 46% of total population will be in urban region of India by 2030. The net migration from rural to urban areas is resulted from the concomitant of rapid growth and expansion of industrial and service sectors in urban area. Migration of rural populace to urban centres in search of better livelihood and employment is the conspicuous factor behind the growth of urbanization. The result is that the rural sector gets deprived of skilled and able labourer and productivity which are all shifted to urban sectors. Moreover, neither the urban ventures offer substantial livelihood to majority of rural migrants over the rural sector is benefited with the underemployed urban settlers. The more urbanization the more decay in environmental and in the quality of life in the form of rush in demand for employment in the first place and in urban waste, urban transportation and urban air quality in the second. The present write up in question attempts to locate all pros and cons of urbanization in India visà-vis its impact and consequences in human life in general.