Young people are leaving their homes from rural areas to study or work in the cities. What are the reasons? Do advantages of this development outweigh its disadvantage?

Nowadays, it becomes prevalent that young people leave rural homes to urban areas either for study or for work.

However

, the centralisation of

development

and economic activities is mostly responsible for shifting. Some believe that flow of

this

part of the

population

has a positive impact as labour cost may reduce. Whereas, others think negative effects lie in it as villages might not get a proper concentration in terms of economic

development

.

Although

both the advantages and disadvantages have strong points to argue with, in my point of view, the advantages of the

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evelopment could not outweigh its disadvantages. On the one hand, the transfer of the young

population

to urban areas has a positive impact through the availability of cheap labour as the migrant workers possess different abilities for a different sector. As more and more people come up with their abilities, it becomes a perfect place for businesses to curtail the operating costs.

For instance

, back in 1975, we had a shortage of worker to work in the garments sector which was mitigated

subsequently

when shifting was started in 1990. Now, we are among the least wage-giver country for readymade garments sector.

Therefore

,

this

is very apparent that transferring human resource, in turn, transfers skills.

On the other hand

, a large portion of the rural

population

who has earning capacity are leaving, economic activities are getting stagnant in the villages.

Moreover

, the government set on lenient status to approve

development

projects for fewer residents living in the village.

For example

, due to less

population

in the

last

year farmers of Gaibandha incurred loss even after bumper production of tomato there while they could not sell it to the big cities for the strike on transportation which was ignored by the rural party as well.

Thus

, the reduction of the

population

could affect the progress of rural areas. Assessing the context,

this

might be said that the exodus of young people has lesser benefits in comparison to its drawbacks as we can not term it as

development

if it lacks inclusivity in it.

Therefore

, we have to think more about decentralised

development

in which our villages may

also

include.