Geographical Perspective on Selected Issues and Problems
Rural-urban migration
Analyse the case study of Ramesh.
Why do people migrate from villages to cities? Because cities need workers, villages have few jobs, and development is unbalanced between regions.
The poor often bypass small towns and go straight to mega cities, where they hope to find more work.
About 55 per cent of the world's people live in cities today; by 2050 it will be about 68 per cent.
Case study: Ramesh grew up poor in a village. He had to leave school after class nine. In 1988 he went to Ludhiana, working in a woollen factory for just ₹20 a day; later he moved to Surat, learnt welding, and now works as a contract welder at different sites. The money he sent home (remittances) improved his family's life: better food, education and a better house.
But migrants often do low-paid, informal work (with no job security), and leave their families behind in the village. So the migration stream is dominated by men. Money goes home; families stay behind.
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