December 31, 1969
Source: TNA English News
Original Article: http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30084  Thai government must prepare for an urban population "boom" that means city dwellers will outnumber its rural counterpart in the very near future, a senior researcher of Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR) of Mahidol University warned Friday.“A rural exodus will bring about many problems, namely environment, public utilities, traffic and crimes,” said Prof Dr Pramot Prasartkul in a press conference to announce the results of IPSR researches on urbanisation in Thailand. “It is necessary for all state agencies to prepare themselves for the consequences,” he said, explaining that the government’s current development strategy is based on an assumption that the majority of Thai
population live in rural areas. “In the future, there will be fewer people working in the agricultural sector where labour force will be replaced by advanced machines. People in the countryside will migrate to large cities,” said Pramot. Currently, about 32 million of Thai people or 51 per cent of the total population have household registrations in municipal areas nationwide. Describing the social phenomenon as “a third boom,” Pramote referred the first boom to the ‘baby boom’ in the 1960s through the 1980s. The second bomb refers to the fast growing number of senior citizens. The population phenomenon in Thailand is in line with world population trends, he said. According to a recent announcement of the United Nations, during the year 2008 the world will see for the first time over half of world's population living in urban areas.(TNA)-E002 |
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