2019 – Posted in: Daily News

THE BIGGEST REASON FOR MIGRATION IN INDIA

For: Preliminary & Mains

Topics covered: What is Migration? Reasons for migration

Marriage is the biggest reason for migration in India.

The finding, which was part of the 2011 Census, showed that 46% of the total migrants moved because of marriage and of these, 97% were women.
As per the census, Out of 29.3 crore 20.58 crore women in India migrated for marriage – which means that 70% of married women had to migrate to another location.
Employment or business accounted for only 10% of total migrants, while education accounted for 1.2%.

As per 2011 census:

Mumbai has taken in the highest number of migrants.
Delhi stood second with 63%.
Uttar Pradesh stood third.
Gujarat, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh are also among the top five destinations to which people migrate.
Tamil Nadu (11th)
About 38% of the migration was from rural to urban areas.
Urban to urban migration accounted for 32%
People from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan account for 46% of the total number of migrants
The Northeast States are among those with the lowest numbers of immigrants
The eight northeast States together accounted for just 2% of the total
As many as 28 lakh people had moved from the State to the capital city.
Uttar Pradesh to Maharashtra and Karnataka to Maharashtra are also among the top three migration paths.
Karnataka to Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to Tamil Nadu are the most common migration patterns.

When a person is enumerated in Census at a different place than his/her place of birth, she/he is considered a ‘migrant’.

The study of the movement of population in different parts of the country helps in understanding the dynamics of the society better.

Migration data began to be collected with the Census of 1872 but was not very detailed until 1961.
Changes introduced in 1961 continued until 2001; in the Census of 2011, a more detailed format for collecting information on migrants was adopted.

Data from Delhi show only 2,321 persons declared Bangladesh as their last place of residence.
The data come at a time when migration is a major phenomenon across the world, and “illegal Bangladeshis” is a hot-button political issue in India.
The data are also very late — it’s almost time for Census 2021 — and do not reflect the current situation.

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