Question

Compare and contrast the migration from rural to urban areas and rural to rural areas.

Answer 1

The urban migration is the common situation in which people from rural areas will move to urban migration due to attraction towards employment, education, health, and some other factors. The main reasons for the migration are:
i) Employment: Lack of employment in rural areas is the main reason for the migration from rural to urban occurs. In urban areas, there are more employment opportunities due to the factories and industries.
ii) Better education: Another reason for the migration from the rural to urban is for the attraction towards the better education facility in urban. Schooling in rural lack of quality.
iii) Better health care: Urban areas provide better health care and infrastructure facility which attract the migrants from the rural to urban. Health facility in the interior areas worse than the facility in urban areas. Migration from urban to rural is a situation in which people move from urban areas to rural areas. These may not be due to the better standard of living, but it is due to environmental factors.
iv) Pollution: Urban areas are most affected by high pollution and diseases. For the betterment of their lives, the people migrate from urban to
rural.
v) Lack of affordability: The cost of living in urban areas is costlier than the rural areas. This cost is higher because there is a lack of houses and free space for the migrants. This less supply of houses makes the price of the houses and accommodation costlier.
vi) The urban migration happens due to the attraction towards the infrastructure, health care, education and better standard of living
whereas the rural migration happens mostly due environmental and economic factors, such as pollution ,cost of living and pandemic.