"Industrialisation and Urbanisation go hand in hand." Explain.

(i) Urban area provide markets andservices such as banking, insurance, transport, labor, consultants’ financial advice, etc. to the industry.

(ii) Many industries tend to come together to make use of the advantages offered by the urban centers known as agglomeration economies. Gradually, a large industrial agglomeration takes palaces.

(iii) Industry provide product for the people of urban areas.

(iv) In the pre- independence period, most of manufacturing units were located in places from the point of view of overseas trade such as Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, etc. Consequently, there emerged certain pockets of industrially developed urban centers surrounded by a huge agricultural rural hinterland.