rapid growth of population in urban areas is a serious problem.justify.
There are some serious problems faced by our country due to rapid growth of population in urban areas. Some of them are listed below:
- The most important problem is the vanishing of forests and open land areas to accommodate more and more people migrating towards urban areas every year.
- Environmental pollution due to following reasons;
- Increasing congestion in the cities.
- Increased smoke due to increased number of vehicles.
- Vanishing green fields due to expansion of cities.
- Too much pressure on city amenities like clean sewages, roads, hospitals, clean residential areas etc.
- Shrinking of agricultural areas as more and more people are leaving villages or agricultural lands.
- Increasing number of slum areas in metropolitan cities due to over crowdedness.
- Increasing congestion in cities while choked buildings in metropolitan cities.