Question

Discuss the process of urbanisation in modern india

Answer 1

The following features mark the process of urbanization in modern India.

• The four metropolitan cities of India, New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, and Mumbai saw rapid increase in population growth, post independence.
• The rising contribution to India's GDP from industrial sector and decline from that of the agricultural sector, made people shift from villages to the cities.
• The standard of living in the urban areas in moderns India became better because of the adoptions of new technologies.
• Large scale immigration of people during the partition also played a part in the urbanization of the country.
• Better infrastructure, better educational facilities and better income opportunities accounted for large scale exodus from rural to urban areas.
• Urbanization at several places in modern India is not an offshoot of proper planning and many times, the cities struggle to accommodate the large number of migrants. As a result, the cities witness space crunch, energy and water crunch along with rapid addition of slums.

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