We need to avoid unchecked flight from the country to the cities. Small areas of urbanization in the rural areas would be desirable as well. We have to avoid having all the migration concentrated in megacities like Delhi or Bombay. Urbanization is inevitable in developing countries like India because in the rural areas you dont have the jobs. There is no way you can employ 80 percent of the people of the country in villages, particularly when new labor-saving technologies are introduced, such as tractors.
People have to be absorbed in manufacturing, which means having large cities or small cities.
As you modernize agriculture, there will be more than enough food for the cities. In India, the big headlines are devoted to political issues. But, on the whole, we devote considerable space to economic and development issues as well. We give a lot of publicity to the World Bank because it is a very important institution to us. Those who read newspapers, such as members of Parliament and other policymakers, live in the cities and could not distinguish a wheat field from a rice field.