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Cause Of Rural Urban Migration

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Dr. R. C. Tyagi & Tarannum Siddiqui (2016), wrote a research paper titled “CAUSES OF RURAL URBAN MIGRATION IN INDIA: CHALLENGES AND POLICY ISSUES” which states that rural – urban migrations are caused by a number of factors such as marriage, employment, education and lack of security. These factors act as ‘magnets’ for the migrant population. People also migrate due to ‘push factors’ when they don’t find any means of livelihood in their home villages, and thus are ‘pushed’ out to the nearby or distant towns and cities as they are not able to sustain any longer in their villages. The methodology used in this paper is secondary data collection. The paper concludes that the rural – urban migration in intra state has been increasing slowly with …show more content…

A negative relationship between interstate migration rate and per capita income points towards migration of people from lower socio economic class. With the increase in regional disparities, it is likely that migration to urban areas will increase more in the future. The findings of the research are that there is a decline in labour force participation especially among females as well as a decline in male migration especially in rural areas. The growth of employment is stagnant which may discourage labour mobility. The decline in male migration may be due to the successful implementation of NREGA. With the low growth rate, uncertainty in income in agricultural sector and decline in livelihood opportunities in rural areas has led to out – migration from these regions. Because of this, most of the migrants get absorbed in the urban informal economy. Thus, the major challenge is to formulate policies which must be connected with social services and employment to improve the well being of the …show more content…

The researcher has used the data from the Population Census (2001) & Agricultural Census (2001) and has applied OLS regression method to explore the determinants of female migration. The findings of this study are that female migration rates are immensely inter related with male migration rates depicting that females accompany males as associational migrants. However, there is also an economic motivation behind migration. Thus, it should be given more importance in migration

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