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Post-independent India witnessed intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, creating vast opportunities for us.Despite nature's monsoon bounty, failure to sustain water availability underground has resulted largely from the loss of vegetation cover, diversion for high water demanding crops, and pollution from industrial effluents and urban wastes.These are unforeseen events like political disturbances, mechanical failures such as the bursting of boiler, fluctuations in exchange rates, etc.Moreover, multiplying urban centres with large and dense populations and urban lifestyles have not only added to water and energy requirements but have further aggravated the problem.The assault on India's rivers – from population growth, agricultural modernisation, urbanisation and industrialisation – is enormous and growing by the day….Those working in urban municipalities earn Rs 30-40 per day and those working privately are paid much less.On the basis of these calculations, for the year 2000, the poverty line for a person was fixed at Rs 328 per month for the rural areas and Rs 454 for the urban areas.Excluding urban places more than two-thirds of the villages in India have already been covered with Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) telephone facility.For example there are thousands of casual workers in the service sector in urban areas who search for daily employment.In urban areas too, bastis in which poor people live are often uprooted.Within countries large number of people may move from the rural to urban areas in search of employment, education and health facilities.In these urban markets, you get both branded and non-branded goods.You can see that 85 per cent of the loans taken by poor households in the urban areas are from informal sources.Jawaharlal Nehru proudly proclaimed the dams as the 'temples of modern India'; the reason being that it would integrate development of agriculture and the village economy with rapid industrialisation and growth of the urban economy.Each ward elects one member of the village or the urban local body.