Nowadays some governments encourage industrial factories and
businesses to move out of large cities. Is it a positive or negative
development? Discuss and give your opinion.
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| Lareg Cities and Industry |
As the large cities world
over are becoming overtly congested and polluted, the governments of different
countries have come out with ambitious plans to decongest larger urban areas by
encouraging industries and businesses to relocate to other locations. Some
people have welcomed this idea while some have registered strong reservations
against this kind of a move.
The plan of moving factories,
offices and manufacturing units to B, C level cities, towns and rural areas is believed
to be laden with several benefits. A move like this would not only save the
infrastructure and utility framework from collapsing but it would also offer a
better quality of life for the inhabitants of big cities. Besides this, this
would also help in distributing the load of population to other regions by
generating opportunities in areas other than main urban centers. Some people
even feel that this would also help in preventing the wastage of resources
spent on upkeep of bigger metropolitan areas.
However there are strong critics
to this theory, some experts feel that shifting manufacturing industry and
businesses out of cosmopolitan and metropolitan areas would prove to be a
disaster in many ways, i.e. moving the factories out to other areas would
result in spreading pollution and congestion to the regions that do not have
necessary infrastructure to handle the increased influx of population and
resulting activities.
Furthermore, relocating
industry out of cities would increase the cost outlay of companies and
businesses because they would have to spend more money for making available
even the basic facilities and utilities. Moreover, in other areas, availability
of skilled labor in diverse specializations and expertise would be a big issue.
To sum up, I personally feel,
only a balanced approach can save cities from congestion and pollution.
