Measures to reduce the problems of urbanization:
1. Policy related steps: Government has taken the following policy related measures to reduce the problems of urbanization:
(a) To control .excessive urbanization, the government has put control on setting up industries in those cities where the population is more than 10 lakh.
(b) Government has started encouraging development of small sized towns so that big cities can be stopped from further urbanization.
(c) The Indian Government has adopted policies that can prevent big cities from becoming bigger and at the same time small and medium sized towns of all the towns can also develop.
(d) Indian Government has adopted a policy of developing satellite tower near big cities.
2. Increasing employment opportunities:
- To control the negative effects of urbanization,’ Government has implemented several employment oriented programmes to enhance self-employment opportunities in cities.
- Government aims at maximum spread of these programmes so that the urban poor can take the benefit. This in turn will increase their income and improve their standard of living.
3. Strengthen the infrastructural facilities:
- To ensure that the infrastructural facilities like water, road, transportation, communication system, drainage, sanitation, etc. reach each land every person the government should make its system strong. . .
- To take the infrastructure at a much higher letef the Central Government has implemented a plan to convert some cities into smart cities.
- The government should-make efforts to construct houses for slum dwellers. With this objective the Central Government has initiated various. housing schemes for the poor and middle income group people.
4. Education and health facilities:
- The rich and the affluent people of the cities are easily able to afford the ultra-modern education and health facilities but the poor class are not. This causes negative effects of urbanization. Steps must be taken to reduce this.
- if proper arrangements are rrtade to avail these facilities even to the poor, then the negative effects of urbanization can be minimized.
5. Development of cottage and small scale industries:
Government shoCild also pay good attention for developing subsidiary industries like cottage and small scale industries. This would help in reducing socio-economic inequalities caused due to urbanization.
6. Development of infrastructural facilities in rural areas:
Government should make effort to improve infrastructural facilities such as education, transportation, communication, roads, electricity, irrigation, etc. of smaller towns and cities. Doing so, people will not be forced to migrate to urban areas. This will further reduce the burden on cities and the negative effects of urbanization can be controlled.
7. Strengthen the administrative system:
- To control the problems related to urbanization, the law and order situation should be improved. This requires that the administrative system should be strengthened and inefficiencies in administrative co-ordination should be eliminated.
- Good governance should be put into practice to solve the problems.
- Citizens should be continuously made aware about law and order so that administrators can improve the law and order situation in the city.
