• Dr. Rajeshwar Ray

Urbanisation is a process in which more and more people tend to concentrate in large or small urban centres. The process of Urbanisation is a global phenomena and it is firmly rotted in both developed and developing nations. Kingsley Davis (1962) has observed that the rate of the process of urbanisation in India has been much more rapid than Japan and 2/3 as fast as that of the U.S.A. In the recent years the rapid process of urbanisation has attention of geographers and it becomes essential to create an environment that would meet the heavy strains of the rapid urbanization and industrialization in future. The process of urbanisation brings revolutionary change in the whole pattern of population. The influence of urbanisation is felt not only in the urban centres but in the rural areas also. The degree of urbanisation in an area is an index of level of socio- economy development As the economic social life and occupation of urban centres very greatly from rural population. A distinction between these two aspects 2 Of population becomes essential for any demography study in an area. Socio- economic values the degree of socio- economic awakening, the level of socio- economic interaction, demographic characteristic and the level of intra- structural facilities may form viable yard sticks for the making distinction between rural and urban centres.

Urbanisation, census, density, etc

"“Factors Affecting Urbanisation in Madhubani district”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.20-24, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907A27.pdf

"“Factors Affecting Urbanisation in Madhubani district”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp20-24, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907A27.pdf