More jobs creation locally important to reduce rural migration

RURAL migration to urban township is on the rise for income opportunities and better living condition. Reports in a daily on Sunday said many poor are shifting to towns and mostly to the capital in search of jobs making it a strenuous issue for policy makers how to cope with the situation.
The migration trend has been highlighted in a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) released recently with three years findings reported upto 2015. It said people of rural Bangladesh are upset to live in inconvenient abode, which is more unstable and insecure where people are also not solvent in terms of income. It is motivating them to migrate to urban areas for better life.
The report said people are moving out in quest for better income and living condition. We believe that it must open the eyes of policy makers and social scientists as their congestion will make cities unlivable. It will create disorder in city life spreading chaos at all levels. City authorities are also precariously failing to ensure utility services to rapidly growing population like water supply, sanitation and hygienic housing although people make it by their own or live in rented slums.  
It appears that not only income inequality the other main reason that matters to them for migration is access to quality human development. In rural areas, there is lack of educational and health care facilities. Income generating opportunities are few, poverty is pervasive, agriculture has turned expensive and poor social status is pulling people back from getting their children educated to aspire for better life.
BBS figure shows around 90 out of every 1,000 persons moved to urban areas in 2015 which is 17 percent up year-on-year basis. Migration between cities is also taking place but the growing rate of rural migration is almost choking out city life. Moreover, as the law and order situation is routinely turning out bad, the rate of crimes in urban areas and police harassment to displaced and ordinary people is also on the rise. What is more important to point out is that criminals are taking the cover of such rural-urban mobility, while opposition party workers and leaders on run are adding tension to such mobility.
We must say that migration is not the solution to rural misfortune. What we believe is that the government must rapidly develop, road, education and health care at rural areas while more job creation may be achieved by setting up more industrial zones away from the towns. Taking work to the people’s doorsteps is easier than handling the displaced people to cities looking for jobs. In our view jobs will give income to create prosperous families away from urban congested life.