it is also incumbent on urban planners to understand the implications of inequitable access to infrastructure unhabitat where a large proportion of urban households without access to electricity live in informal and unauthorized settlements efforts to extend access may be constrained by lack of legal tenure possibly requiring resettlement and complementary measures ruralurban linkages also have important implications for rural electrification many countries in asia and africa have a pattern of temporary and circular ruralurbanrural migration whereby agricultural workers seek work in urban areas as domestic workers or seasonal staff in the hospitality sector during agricultural slack seasons iom srivastava and kumar pandey this means that rural dwellers are by no means necessarily unfamiliar with modern electricity or electrical appliances