Urbanization Prospects and the Problem of India and Its Infrastructural Provision

Authors

  • Mehzabeen Sultana

Abstract

Urbanization is a process during which the industrial structure becomes increasingly oriented around secondary and the tertiary industries instead of primary industries. In this sense, urbanization also involves changes in the working population from agricultural to non-rural industrial and service occupations as well as changes in thinking patterns, lifestyle, behavior models, values, and culture. In material terms, urbanization often involves the development of modern urban infrastructure and public service facilities that cater for these changing economic and social circumstances. For this reason, urbanization is a complex and multifaceted process involving population migration from rural to urban areas, rural and urban land conversions, spatial reconfiguration of settlements, and changing governance and management. Generally, processes of urbanization can be summarized in four aspects. This research paper describes urbanization prospects, discovers some peculiarities of city growth in different regions, and makes the analysis of different regions, and makes the analysis of dependencies in economic growth and infrastructure investment of India. As a result, considerable discrepancies in urbanization process and its infrastructure investments of India. Infrastructure provision is revealed and new sources of finance for solution of this problem are offered.

Keywords: infrastructure, urbanization, capital investment, infrastructural fundraising

Published

2020-12-31

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