Monday, December 6, 2010

Urbancentric Development

History of democratic nations reveals that a great threat to democratic and federal forms of government is the elitist trend of urbanisation.In present urban centric developing nations like India, the powerful elites stop hearing the voice of the majority living in the villages.Urban centric development is a problem in many countries of world depending upon the distribution of the villages and scantiness of the population.
There was always a need to oppose this type of development every time in the history of nations but convenience of the players swayed the way and it was never opposed.Perhaps Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King were the exceptions who opposed it time to time.
Administration and the power in the urban centric society remains centered in the cities and what so ever rules are made villages practically are neither contributing to it nor it reaches there.They really fail to derive any benefit out of these laws and schemes.The autonomy and economic independence of villages is ruined by urbanisation.The last fabric of this independence is also devastated by urban centric development.
Urban centric power tends to privatise the government work, finally it gets a high price tag and genuine works are delayed and denied.There are expectations before rendering services in the system which finally breed institutionalised corruption and negation of genuine developmental and democratic works.It generates a vicious circle in which rural population becomes dirt for so called urban and civilised society.

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