How to solve Rural-Urban Migration in the context of Bangladesh

1. Answer to the application question 1
Since unplanned, uncontrolled urbanization and huge influx of untrained, unskilled, poverty
driven people, gave an upsurge to the numerous crises in Dhaka; Govt. efforts to control rural
urban migration and controlling informal job sectors have been thwarted extremely by those
consequences.
Situation Analysis:
1. Prior Consideration
Sequential migration made Dhaka to contain about 3.4 million people in 4966 slums
contributing to the haphazard growth and these poor people ends up in new slums and
engage in various informal job sectors.
2. Factors Worsening the situation: The push and pull factors for RUM are mutually
affecting. Little growth opportunities, poor education and health facilities, on the
contrary, job diversity and employment opportunities, modern amenities, safe life induce
people to rush to Dhaka.
3. Impacts: Shortage of housing facilities, development of slums and shuttered settlements,
poor water supply, drainage and sanitation, interrupted basic services, informal
employment, criminal activities.
4. Govt. Policy: Those polices failed to rural development and control RUM.
5. Ongoing govt. project: Little influence of Integrated Poverty Alleviation Programme,
Rural Livelihood Project, Palli Pragati Prakalpa, etc.
Problem Definition
Govt. needs appropriate solution to control growing RUM and reduce the informal sector.
Short Term Goal
- Identifying the factors pushing people to Dhaka City for developing reactive action plan.
- Reducing the dependency on Dhaka
- Allocating industries and govt. institutions based on demographic and geographic demand than
centering them around Dhaka
Long Term Goal
-Reducing the push factors and increasing the pull Factors through aligning Govt. projects of
Bangladesh Rural Development Board(BRDB) to alleviate poverty and rural development.
- Decentralizing Govt and Corporate affairs to the other major cities
-Accommodating the NGOs working for rural development and employing rural people to
formal economic sectors.

2. Alternatives
-Highly Decentralization of corporate and Government offices and industries
-Depending on market economy Solve this Problem
-Reconstructing the capital to another area like New Delhi
-Reducing discrimination between Rural and Urban Area
Evaluation Criteria
1. Social Acceptance and Perceived Reaction
2. Economical and technical feasibility
3. Alignment with Govt. Policies
4. Required time and cost involved
Evaluation of the Solution
Being a small country, capital shifting isn’t a feasible solution; letting Dhaka grow without
planning is technically inefficient. But to solve this problem a planned decentralization and rural
development both are prescribed.
Recommendation
Migratory Groups Action Plan Justification
1. Better Education
seeker
-Household registration to
certain area for making
people bound to admit their
children to the local
-Improved Quality Education
in community-based -
institutions.
-Centralized regulatory
bodies
Improved Hukoe System
applied in China
2. Involuntary Migration
(calamities, poverty)
-Revised Land Distribution
-Social Employment
Guccho Gram Project
(CVRP) and Grameen Bank
pioneered
3. Opportunity and
Employment seekers
-Developing Transportation
System
-Rural Development project
-Accessible Credit system
-Shifting Garments and other
industrial areas in other cities
Fast train transportation in
Kolkata.
4. Unchecked economy -Improved legal and police
system to check illegal
activities
Strict laws in Singapore

3. 5. Non-agricultural
livelihood
-Introducing scientific
methods
USA , Japan Agricultural
Execution Plan