Flow of commuters to Guwahati City from neighboring small towns: a case study

Abstract Urbanization is a major change taking place globally. It is estimated that 500 million people will be urbanized by 2030 which is around 60 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. Cities fuel better job opportunities, improved health and educational facilities etc. are major pull factors inviting more and more people to cities. The main objectives of the paper are to find out the reasons of flow of commuters to Guwahati city from surrounding small towns. To study the levels of infrastructural development, centrality score of the selected indicators have been obtained by assigning them weightages. The correlation between the two variables, flow of commuters to a town and status of infrastructural facilities of that town found to be 0.71 which is significant at 5 percent level of significance. It confirms that higher is the status of infrastructural facilities higher the flow of commuters to the city.