MANY COUNTRIES
TODAY ARE EXPERIENCING HIGH LEVELS OF MIGRATION FROM RURAL AREAS TO CITIES. WHAT
ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS TREND, AND WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE ON THE EXISTING CITY
DWELLERS?
In this contemporary era, shifting of peoples from rural area to
experience city life is a burning issue and it has increased at an alarming
rate. In recent trend myriad of nations are confronting this complication of
people migrating from countryside to urban area. Apparently, modernization and
westernization are to be blamed for this universal phenomenon. However, it
begets harrowing upshot on society.
Fundamentally, the predominant factors that evidently trigger it
can be observed. To begin with, in this ultra-modern epoch of science and
technology there is exponential rise in plethora of job opportunities available
in urban areas. The people transfer their location to urban area to find
appropriate job for themselves and earn their livelihood. According to Forbes
in metro cities 35% prolific increase in job opportunities due to advancement
in technologies. Secondly, the gap between rural education and urban area
education is widened gradually. The huge difference in methodology and quality
of studies between both the educations subsequently, people shift from country
side to inner city. The students want to do study in urban area for their
promising development and benefit them considerably by earning whopping salary
and earn their livelihood. Thirdly, in this modern era, there is prolific rise
in basic infrastructure and medical facilities in urban area. The people can
make feel themselves comfortable to shift the place where emergency services
are readily available in case of any urgent medical aid with framework of all
the amenities to live fruitful life consequently, they want to move from
outskirts of city to inner-city.
Nevertheless, it entails myriad detrimental effects. Chiefly,
the shifting of people from villages to city have their own inherited downsides
to the people already residing in urban area. The city population face the
complication of increase in inflation rate of all the goods and services due to
more demand as of the supply. The more people shift to urban place the
complication of living arrangements arise. According to BBC it is revealed that
40% of increase in inflation rate in urban area in accordance to last two
consecutive years. Additionally, the detrimental effect to people who are
already part of urban society that it is big trouble for the people residing in
inner-city from past years to earn their livelihood as more of the cheap labor
and working people is now available in city seemingly, the scarcity of job also
happen as innumerable people present in the area with part of salary
negotiation to live their life. Besides, the quality of life also get effected
with plethora of catastrophic effects on the people. The myriad of pollutions
rise in urban area due to more people start residing. The complication of
drainage system with water pollution, noise pollution is multifold in urban
areas . It is very tough for the people to move outside on roads for their
daily chores due to heavy traffic jams with bad air quality. The pollution
cause plethora of medical ailments to the people already residing. To
vindicate, infected lungs, asthma problem and depletion of oxygen content
in air due to air pollution.
To recapitulate, the government should make some
rules and regulation for the rural area people to migrate to urban areas. The
government should also make employment opportunities and shifting of
manufacturing units and other plants from center of city to outskirt of the
city so more people employee there with upliftment of rural area. The beauty of
urban area should be maintained to attract the tourists to the concerned
destination and earn the revenue with other benefits from them
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