In the 20th century only 11% population was settled in the cities and now in the 21st century this figure has gone up to 31.16% because of various reasons as
1. Agriculture based rural life style is changing fast to industries based urban life style.
2. Agriculture (per census 2001) had more than 1/2 of the share in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of India, has come down to l/4th as per the 2011 census because the people in the villages do not take up farming as their profession.
They are moving to the urban areas to work in different services such as transports, banking, construction works and many other services as engineering, medicines etc. The village folk are now more acquainted with the trend of urban style through various means as radio, television, newspapers etc. These means are largely responsible for creating a big gap between the rural and urban lifestyles, and as such trend towards urbanisation has increased.
