Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

By Dr. Moushumi Datta Nagindas Khandwala College, Mumbai. Thoughts of Gandhi Reinforced into the Current Economic Scenario:  Reverse Migration : Gandhi believed that villages need to be developed so that there is less pressure of people moving into cities in, search of jobs and thus putting enormous pressure on the cities infrastructure.  He believed not only that it led to overpopulated cities but that it also destroyed the balance and the social fabric of, both, the villages and the cities.  He believed that development of villages through creation of infrastructure will create demand for jobs in villages and thereby movements reverse of population from cities back to villages.  If this is taken on a global scale, it is relevant. Countries like India and Brazil in their quest for development are actually experiencing reverse migration of their own people from the developed countries and also people from developed countries into these countr...