Intensity of dependence of rural settlement on urban centre in Haruha block Varansi district: A case study

Rural areas can be defined as those pieces of land that can lie outside city centers and towns. Rural-urban linkage show the structural social, economic, cultural, and political relationships maintained between individuals and groups in the urban environment and those in rural areas. Typically, rural dependency on urban area are often articulated in the nature and forms of migration, production, consumption, financial and some investment linkages that occur within the rural-urban symbiosis. The exchange of money, goods, visits including social activities, and communication with relatives and friends can all be used as indicators of rural-urban linkages. Strong rural dependency will be key to this and include the physical movement of goods, people, money, information, social networks and relations that span rural and urban locations, and also interactions between different economic sectors-agriculture, industry and services. The relationship between urban and rural areas is changing is countries all over the world. Rural towns and smaller cities have the potential to invigorate rural areas in their function as market hubs, centres for processing and storage, and basic service providers. The study of dependency of rural area on urban centre is of vital importance as it helps in formulating future development plans.