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Man is a social animal and lives in groups, interrelated and interdependent. However, there was great variability in this manner of living. Man started with nomadic ways of life moving from one place to the other, as the movement was contingent to the vagaries of the season/climate/nature or environment. The revolution came when men developed “aggressive attitude towards the environment” (Childe, Gordon V., 1936). From this critical beginning basically there was no stop and human societies became more and more complex, even shuttering off territorial boundaries. Today with the onslaught of information technology the term like ‘global village’ are being frequently used to fathom the vast area in which total human population is living. However, on the same coin dichotomy persists in the form of rural and urban areas and consequent phenomenon like that of urbanization and urbanism; and related problems of availability and utilisation of Urban Basic Services (UBS)