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Discuss the trend of urbanization in India. Do you think that Industrialization is the only precondition of urbanization? Give your arguments.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 20 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Between 2001 and 2011 India added more than 2,500 new towns, and almost none of them acquired a factory. That single fact organises both halves of this question: India's urban trend is real and accelerating, but the engine driving it is not, and never was, industry alone.

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  • The trend of urbanisation in India
  • Is industrialisation the only precondition? My answer is no
  • What industrialisation still explains
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