With a sharp increase in the population of the main cities of the world, overpopulation has become a

challenging task for the nations to manage. Imbalanced migration in search of better lifestyle is the
major cause behind this overcrowding of urban centers, and the government’s focus on the
development of country side’s can surely solve this problem.

Overpopulation of mega-cities are caused by the imbalanced migration, whereby more and more people
from rural areas are moving into urban areas. This migration is attributed by a number of reasons.
Firstly, the basic facilities such as medical and education are not up to the mark in the villages. For
providing better education to the children and medical facilities for the family, individuals prefer to leave
their countryside houses to settle down in cities. Secondly, urban centers offer a wide variety of
employment opportunities and to grab these, professionals are migrating to metro-cities in search of a
better earning lifestyle. Finally, lack of proper transportation infrastructure makes commuting from a
village to a city extremely hectic and time consuming, that people opt to leave their ancestral homes
behind to migrate to cities.

The best way to solve this issue would be to develop the countryside in order to reduce the burden of
the metro-cities. The government should spend more on improving the medical, education and
transportation infrastructure in the villages. In this way, people in the rural areas will get the basic
amenities at par with the urban people. Furthermore, employment opportunities can be increased by
motivating the establishment of the startups in the suburbs by providing subsidy to the budding
entrepreneurs. For instance, if all the provisions like that of jobs, literacy and health are provided at the
doorsteps of the people living in the rural areas of the country, then why would they be keen to migrate
to the cities leaving the nature’s lap behind?

In conclusion, the government should tackle the problem of overcrowding of the urban areas by
focusing more on the development of the rural areas. If villages are developed, then people in the mega-
cities would be relieved of the issue of congestion in their cities.