An overview of India’s Urbanization, Urban Economic
Keywords:
India’s, UrbanizationAbstract
The creation of urban agglomerations in India is one of the most recent occurrences that has been seen in the country. Urban agglomerations are defined as the spatial concentration of urban population and economic activity. This suggests that urban agglomeration includes urbanisation but is not the same thing as urbanisation. There has been a consistent rise in the proportion of India's population that lives in urban areas, as well as the formation of new cities and towns, a sizeable contribution to the national income of the country, a diminishing of poverty, an increase in inequality, and a decreased level of inclusive growth. The natural increase in population, the formation of new cities, migration from rural to urban regions, and the categorization of rural areas as urban all contribute to the expansion of the urban population.
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