URBANISATION - BOON OR BANE

What?

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Urbanisation Trend

Reference: Global Agenda Council

When?

Urbanisation has been happening ever since the 16th century due to industrial revolution. At that time, only 3% of the world’s population were living in city areas.

Urbanisation is a coin with two faces. Optimisation of both is required to balance this.

History video

Villages not only gives riches to a nation, but also the riches she can call her own.

Rural Areas

Agriculture

Agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India.

Govt. Schemes

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Provision of Urban Amenities in Rural Areas

District Rural Development Agency

Special Economic Zones National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Multiple cropping is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same space during a single growing season.

Multi Cropping

Small scale industry is an industrial undertaking in which the investment in fixed assets in plant & machinery, whether held on ownership term or on lease or hire purchase.

Small Scale Industries

The major causes of rural-urban migration is identified as; search for better wages, education, political and social stability, better technologies, employment and business opportunities.

Rural »»»» Urban

Incentives

The era of modernization is viewed in the entire sectors especially in the agriculture sector. Gone are the days when farmers meant a poor man laboring hard to meet his needs.

Multi Business

Inspiration

Boon video

Air Pollution

Air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere.

Water Pollution

Water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.

Deforestation

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

Land insecurity, Poor living conditions, Unemployment, Crime, Crowding and lack of sanitation are main problems.

Slums

Resource Crisis

Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security ,economic , political, societal, or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning.

health

Health Problems

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Endangered

16,897 species and cultures like the Tulu are dying a slow death today.

Reference: The Hindu, IUCN red list 2012

Green Technology

The field of "green technology" encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products.

Counter Urbanisation

Counter urbanisation is a demographic and social process where by people and business move from urban areas to rural areas.

Waste Management

Reduce - Reuse - Recycle ... The first step to reducing your impact on the environment, is reducing the amounts of resources you consume and use.

One’s own responsibility

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Rural - Urban partnership, key to a prosperous future.

Rural - Urban partnership, key to a prosperous future.

Rural - Urban partnership, key to a prosperous future.