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प्रश्न
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Rural areas act as the ______ factor while urban areas are the ______ factor.
उत्तर
Rural areas act as the push factor while urban areas are the pull factor.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Match the columns
| A | B | ||
| 1 | Urbanisation | a | Bedroom communities |
| 2 | Rapid Industrial growth | b | Satellite city: Hitech city |
| 3 | Slums | c | Shift from rural areas to cities |
| 4 | Satellite cities | d | Plenty of job opportunities |
| 5 | Main city: Hyderabad | e | Heavily populated, poor living conditions |
Define urbanization
Correct the underlined word and complete the statement.
The New Economic Policy of 1991 is linked to the process of urbanisation.
______ is the process in which there is an increase in the proportion of population living in towns and cities.
______ is determined by three number of factors.
______ to Urban migration is the migration between one urban center to the other like in search of higher salaries.
An ecocity is ______.
What three measures can be adopted to strengthen rural-urban linkage?
Read the following paragraph and answer the following questions:
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Counter urbanization is a demographic and social process. Of late urbanization process in India is witnessing counter- urbanization in its life cycle. The counter-urbanization increases urbanism in physically rural areas. The growth in information technology, increase in car ownership over the last 40 years, more mobility, new business parks on the edge of cities, more people tend to move when they retire and so on are factors responsible for counter urbanization. |
- Mention any two causes associated with Counter Urbanization as given to the paragraph.
- Write two more causes, other than the ones mentioned here, which you think lead people to return to rural areas.
- What changes will be observed in rural areas as an effect of counter urbanization.
State an adverse impact of urbanisation on the ecosystem.
