why rural-urban disparity in our country?

let’s take a look at the breakup of GDP by economic activity.

 If we observe the above break-up of INDIAN GDP, its easily understood,why we have economic inequality between rural and urban.

India went from being primarily an Agriculture economy to a Services economy, and missed the Industrial phase in between. This is amply clear from the break – up of various activities in the above chart and the low percentage of Manufacturing in it.

I think this is one reason for the kind of divide we see between the rural and urban areas today. You had a situation where most of the jobs created after liberalization were in the so called new economy that was more easily accessible to urban folks than it was to rural folks, and with no corresponding increase in agriculture incomes – the divide grew from there on.