Suburban Migration

Migration is an integral part of civilisation. It has been a perennial tendency among humans to move to safer places where they enjoy better living conditions, livelihoods, security, and peace. When the people came out of forests and began to live in settlements, this gave rise to a new form of social structure. The development of villages brought transformative changes to the people’s physical, mental and intellectual growth. For thousands of years, planned villages served as measuring yardstick of development. This was followed by the evolution of cities where basic amenities of life remained far better compared to that of the hamlets perched on far-off locations. As the facilities and powers were concentrated in the cities, people began to migrate there. So rural to urban migration has been a universal phenomenon.