Triggers of Rurbanization
TRIGGERS FOR RURBANIZATION : Following are the initiatives which can trigger Rurbanization
• Government interventions like provision of urban services in rural areas such as good roads, transportations, drinking water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunication, educational facilities and hospitals etc. This will ensure good living conditions and will result in reduced migration to larger towns/ cities.
• Connecting roads which link many villages to many urban agglomerations, thereby providing quick and easy access to the key markets. Besides, when reliable, quick and frequent transport services are available, these groups of villages can be transformed into a virtual town. This will further empower the villages to support a variety of services that were earlier accessible only in the cities.
• Development of the investment regions/industrial areas/special economic zones around the villages or the underdeveloped areas.
• Large anchor industry being setup - providing the fillip to a number of anqillary industries resulting into in-situ employment (especially pert~inililigJo unskilled labour) giving economic spin-offs for the villages in the periphery of this industry / unit.
• Development of tourism through appropriateshowcasing~nd publicity of tourist destinations which will increase the spen1,i,~g iI11ftthe village economy and generating employment benefiting the people, there,l?y;gi¥ing a fi~lip to loca,l'economic development.
.:. EFFECTS OF RURBANIZATION
Effects of Rurbanization can be seeniHat three lev¢ls namely: local, regional, and state/national level. While changes have b~~n initiated. in one field the effects have to be reflected in diverse field such as ecp~pp1ic, S(j~i~l,.ppl~tiical, environmental and physical.
• Local Effects: Local e,~~~?,~ic ch.~~geSi';~8P1ar to be the most significant outcome of the changes seen at the other;~~(j),~~yels'~'The~'are easy to identify, measure and compare. Growth in
• Government interventions like provision of urban services in rural areas such as good roads, transportations, drinking water, sanitation, electricity, telecommunication, educational facilities and hospitals etc. This will ensure good living conditions and will result in reduced migration to larger towns/ cities.
• Connecting roads which link many villages to many urban agglomerations, thereby providing quick and easy access to the key markets. Besides, when reliable, quick and frequent transport services are available, these groups of villages can be transformed into a virtual town. This will further empower the villages to support a variety of services that were earlier accessible only in the cities.
• Development of the investment regions/industrial areas/special economic zones around the villages or the underdeveloped areas.
• Large anchor industry being setup - providing the fillip to a number of anqillary industries resulting into in-situ employment (especially pert~inililigJo unskilled labour) giving economic spin-offs for the villages in the periphery of this industry / unit.
• Development of tourism through appropriateshowcasing~nd publicity of tourist destinations which will increase the spen1,i,~g iI11ftthe village economy and generating employment benefiting the people, there,l?y;gi¥ing a fi~lip to loca,l'economic development.
.:. EFFECTS OF RURBANIZATION
Effects of Rurbanization can be seeniHat three lev¢ls namely: local, regional, and state/national level. While changes have b~~n initiated. in one field the effects have to be reflected in diverse field such as ecp~pp1ic, S(j~i~l,.ppl~tiical, environmental and physical.
• Local Effects: Local e,~~~?,~ic ch.~~geSi';~8P1ar to be the most significant outcome of the changes seen at the other;~~(j),~~yels'~'The~'are easy to identify, measure and compare. Growth in