In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the countryside is decreasing. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

In many nations worldwide, folk are migrating to urban metropolises from the countryside, which is reducing the

population

in rural areas. I think

this

is a demerit, as it creates overcrowding in the capital and poor progress in the countryside.

This

essay will

further

explain my stance in the ensuing paragraphs.

To begin

with, there has been a rising number of

population

living the villages and small

township

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and relocating to the big cities for some obvious reasons. Some of these reasons are schooling, search for jobs and exposure which most rural

towns

lack and

this

has seen global popularity. The majority of the small

towns

scarcity

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schools for

further

studies,

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vacancies for prospective

people

and for that matter

people

leave the places to the urban

towns

to seek these needs.

This

tends to create pressure on the amenities and facilities available in the

towns

, increase traffic jams and

also

rise in vices like robbery, prostitution etc.

For example

, in the

last

conducted housing and

population

census in Ghana in 2020, it revealed that the

population

in the regional capitals especially Accra has 90% of the citizens coming from villages in pursuit of jobs and education,

while

some lack proper places to lay their heads.

Furthermore

, the negativity to

this

move is that the small

towns

from where these

people

are all shifting continue to face a lot of developmental crises ranging from bad roads

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to social amenities like hospitals, schools etc. Since the

people

are moving to the big cities in quest of all these things they lack in their villages, the government and the relevant

people

see no need to extend their developmental agenders to these places which is weighing down most economies , particularly in agriculture.

For instance

, the McDan group of companies has seen the need to build a salt factory in the Ada community of Ghana where salt is mined and has by far opened job opportunities for the indigenes which I believe is a laudable thing if emulated globally will help curtail

this

negative development of rural-urban migration. In conclusion, there is a global increase where

people

are moving from the countryside to the big cities bringing down the number of rural citizens which I believe is not a positive development because it is increasing overcrowding and poor development in the rural

towns

.