Are industrialisation and urbanisation interlinked? How?

Relationship between Urbanisation and Industrialisation!

The urban population of India is expanding much more rapidly after in­dependence. For the teeming millions, the city is where they come looking for jobs. In the 1901 census, only 10.8 per cent of the total popu­lation (or 25.6 million out of 238 million) lived in cities. In 1991, this had gone up to 25.73 per cent; and by 2001, nearly 35 per cent (or about 350 million of the estimated one billion populations) will be urban residents.

This means that in coming two years, there will be 37 cities with a popu­lation between one and ten million. Mumbai, Delhi and Calcutta will have more than 14 million people each. One factor which has contributed relatively much to the increase in urban population is industrialisation.

This is similar to what occurred in the developing West, where accelerated urbanisation was largely the re­sult of industrialisation. Push as well as pull factors account for the movement from villages to cities. Of the push factors, first, population in­crease means fewer jobs to go round in the traditional agricultural sector. Second, where agriculture is becoming modernised, an absolute reduction in jobs takes place. Of the pull factors, the strongest one is the prospect of making a better living than as a rural peasant.