With changing times, and in the face of more technological advancement every day, many non-urban localities are abandoning rural mode of living and earning and edging towards urbanization.
However, this shift has a lot of adverse effects on the economic well-being of the country and the environmental balance of nature.
The following points discuss how the rapidly increasing urbanization of rural areas can affect Indians:
- More no. Industrial work can lead to a huge environmental breakdown. Building of highway, Avenue and tracks leads to removal of raw topsoil, hummus and mould, which will further hamper agricultural purposes.
- Polluting the rural areas might negatively affect the agricultural field.
- Global warming and climate change can ruin the availability of natural resources, limiting rural households’ options that depend on natural resources for consumption or trade.
- In the Indian economy, small scale and cottage industries play an important role because of their potential employment generation. It also contributes to increasing the industrial output and the total net export of the country. Cottage business start-up costs are generally low.
- It is commonly assumed that the cost of living is much higher in cities than in the country because housing rents are higher in urban areas and food staples cost more. It might become difficult for the rural people to cope with the high cost of living and expenses.
- Process of Industrialization resulted in changes in crop patterns from traditional crops to commercial crops, supply of the agriculture labour due to rural-urban migration, conversion of rural land into urban areas and industrial land, reducing the availability of land for agriculture. New technology, including chemicals and larger tractors, allowed farmers to work larger land areas with less labour.
