Urbanization has both positive effects and negative effects. These two sided effects work as the two sides of the same coin.
- On the positive note, infrastructural facilities like education, health, banking, transportation, communication, insurance, electricity, etc. keep on increasing in the urban areas due to urbanization.
- People get jobs and so poverty gets reduced. Urban areas have libraries with modern amenities, book stalls and various cultural programmes that take place in cities enrich people culturally.
- The thought process of people become modern and their standard of living goes high.
- On the negative side, large income as well as social inequalities can be seen in urban areas.
People who do not get proper employment live in slums. Increased population makes it difficult to maintain law and order, environmental problem increases and many such problems increase.
- Hence, one can rightly say urbanization is a coin with two sides.
