Pseudo-Urbanization

India’s urbanization is often termed as over-urbanisation/pseudo-urbanization. Pseudo-urbanization is a state when a city is unable to contain its populace in terms of providing livelihood, housing and infrastructure. Pseudo-urbanization means that the process of urbanization is not in tune with either industrialization of modernization. The process of pseudo-industrialization is more activated by strong rural ‘push’ factor from the relatively poor areas rather than scope offered for employment from weak urban ‘pull’ factor.

That is why the big cities have attained inordinately large population size leading to virtual collapse in the urban services and followed by basic problems in the field. The urban density needs a good infrastructure far more than rural life, and India’s cities also illustrate, all too painfully, that India still has not been able to fulfil that need.