With better job opportunities and higher wages, states like Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu are witnessing rapid urbanisation in comparison to Bihar and Assam which are least urbanised, a UN report said on Wednesday.
"Urbanisation is happening due to natural rate of population growth statically coupled with the increase in the rate of migration in these states," UNFPA (India) representative Nesim Tumkaya said after the release of the report - State of World Population 2007.
In India, Tamil Nadu tops the list of the major states with 43.9 per cent of the total population living in the urban areas followed by Maharashtra (42.4 per cent) and
Gujarat (37.4 per cent), according to the report.
On the contrary, only 10.5 per cent of the population are residing in urban areas in Bihar while 12.7 per cent population in Assam and 15 per cent population in Orissa are living in urban areas, the report said quoting Census 2001.
India's rate for urbanisation is faster than the world and by 2030 it will be 2.5 per cent against world's 1.9 per cent, the report predicted.
Observing that migration from rural to urban will continue, the report said, the move is "driven by actual or expected opportunities to improve quality of life".
Dwelling on the "pull" and "push" of migration, the report said poverty and hunger, marginal land holdings, lack of basic amenities and unemployment force the people to move from rural to urban areas, expecting better income and job opportunities and standard of living.
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"Urbanisation is happening due to natural rate of population growth statically coupled with the increase in the rate of migration in these states," UNFPA (India) representative Nesim Tumkaya said after the release of the report - State of World Population 2007.
In India, Tamil Nadu tops the list of the major states with 43.9 per cent of the total population living in the urban areas followed by Maharashtra (42.4 per cent) and
Gujarat (37.4 per cent), according to the report.
On the contrary, only 10.5 per cent of the population are residing in urban areas in Bihar while 12.7 per cent population in Assam and 15 per cent population in Orissa are living in urban areas, the report said quoting Census 2001.
India's rate for urbanisation is faster than the world and by 2030 it will be 2.5 per cent against world's 1.9 per cent, the report predicted.
Observing that migration from rural to urban will continue, the report said, the move is "driven by actual or expected opportunities to improve quality of life".
Dwelling on the "pull" and "push" of migration, the report said poverty and hunger, marginal land holdings, lack of basic amenities and unemployment force the people to move from rural to urban areas, expecting better income and job opportunities and standard of living.
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