Infrastructure-Induced Rural Urbanization and Rural Industrialization: Insights from West Bengal
Published: 2025
Author(s) Name: Subrata Dutta |
Author(s) Affiliation: Associate Professor, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
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Abstract
Several urban problems can be mitigated if the rural issues are properly addressed. Biased policies towards the centers of introverted economic systems that strengthened and promoted some major primate cities are often blamed by scholars for unbalanced, dualistic economic growth. This study focuses on West Bengal state. Due to unemployment and low wages in villages, the migration of rural workers from villages to Kolkata city is a common phenomenon. At the same time, migration of mostly unskilled workers from rural to rural areas is not very uncommon in developing countries. Thus, infrastructure-induced rural urbanization and rural industrialization may be a possible solution to the current problem of unbalanced regional growth.
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