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प्रश्न
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Urbanisation
उत्तर
- Urbanisation is a process of the concentration of population in a city or urban area.
- Increasing population is one major reason for urbanisation. A few other factors affecting urbanisation are air, water and the economic as well as social organisations necessary for community life.
- In the context of post-independence India, the increase in urban population is also due to factors such as a reduction in the mortality rate, industrialisation, unavailability of means of livelihood in rural areas, job opportunities in cities and the resulting migration.
- To reduce the strain on cities, it is necessary to make jobs available in villages, achieve a balance in economic development, control the expansion of metros and provide necessary services and facilities in both the urban as well as rural areas.
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Make a list of the large cities in India and show them on a map of India.
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Urbanisation
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______ is determined by three number of factors.
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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.
Emission of greenhouse gases is largely due to ______.
