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MCCD Oneimportantfacetofstudyonpopulationisthestudyofmigrationarisingoutofvarioussocial,economicorpoliticalreasons.ForalargecountrylikeIndia,

NRIC thestudyofmovementofpopulationindifferentpartsofthecountryhelpsinunderstandingthedynamicsofthesocietybetter.Atthisjunctionintheeconomic
development,inthecountry,especiallywhenmanystatesareundergoingfastereconomicdevelopment,particularlyinareas,suchas,manufacturing,
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informationtechnologyorservicesectors,datamigrationprofileofpopulationhasbecomemoreimportant.
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Whenapersonisenumeratedincensusatadifferentplacethanhis/herplaceofbirth,she/heisconsideredamigrant.Thismaybeduetomarriage,which
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isthemostcommonreasonformigrationamongfemalesorforwork,whatisthecaseasgenerallyamongmales,etc.Italsohappensthatmanyreturntothei
NRICResourceCenter place of birth after staying out. To capture such movements of population census collect information on migration by last helps to understand the curren
LinguisticSurvey migrationscenariobetter.InIndia,aspercensus2001,about307millionpersonhavebeenreportedasmigrationbyplaceofbirth.Outofthemabout259million
(84.2%),migratedfromonepartofthestatetoanother,i.e.,fromonevillageortowntoanothervillageortown.42million(2%)fromoutsidethecountry.
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dataonmigrationbylastresidenceinIndiaasperCensus2001showsthatthetotalnumberofmigrantshasbeen314million.Outofthesemigrantsbylas
Introduction residence,268million(85%)hasbeenintrastatemigrants,thosewhomigratedfromoneareofthestatetoanother.41million(13%)wereinterstatemigrants
AdministrativeAtlas and5.1million(1.6%)migratedfromoutsideofthecountry.
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TABLE10:NUMBEROFMIGRANTSBYPLACEOFBIRTHINDIA2001
Category MigrationsbyPlaceofbirth Percentage
A. TotalPopulation 1,028,610,328
B. TotalMigrations 307,149,736
B.1 Migrantswithinthestateofenumeration 258,641,103
B.11 Migrantsfromwithinthedistricts 181,799,637
B.12 Migrantsfromotherdistrictsofthestate 76,841,466
B.2 MigrantsfromotherstatesinIndia 42,341,703
B.3 Migrantsfromothercountries 6,166,930
Source:TableD1India,CensusofIndia2001.

TABLE11:NUMBEROFMIGRANTSBYPLACEOFLASTRESIDENCEINDIA2001
Category MigrationsbyPlaceofbirth Percentage
A. TotalPopulation 1,028,610,328
B. TotalMigrations 314,541,350
B.1 Migrantswithinthestateofenumeration 268,219,260
B.11 Migrantsfromwithinthedistricts 193,592,938
B.12 Migrantsfromotherdistrictsofthestate 74,626,322
B.2 MigrantsfromotherstatesinIndia 41,166,265
B.3 Migrantsfromothercountries 5,155,423

Opportunitiesinurbanareasforemployment,education,etchavebeenapullfactorattractingmigrantsfromruraltourbanareasandfromsmallertownsand
cities to larger urban areas. There is also migration in the opposite direction from urban to rural areas due to various reasons. The migration during the las
decade,i.e.,migrantswithdurationofresidenceof09yearsattheplaceofenumeration,byvariousmigrationstreamsaresummarizedinthefollowingtable:

TABLE 12: NUMBER OF INTRASTATE AND INTERSTATE MIGRANTS IN THE COUNTRY (DURATION OF RESIDENCE 09
YEARS)
BYRURALURBANSTATUSINDIA2001BYRURALURBANSTATUSINDIA2001
Ruralunbanstatusofplaceofenumeration
RuralUrbanstatusofplaceoflastresidence
Total Rural Urban
Total 97,560,320 61,428,374

Rural 73,949,607 53,354,376

Urban 20,655,277 6,266,503

Unclassified 2,955,436 1,807,495

Source:TableD2,CensusofIndia2001

Outofabout98million,totalintrastateandinterstatemigrantsinthecountryduringlastdecade,61millionhavemovedtoruralareasand36milliontourban
areas.Migrationstreamoutofruralareas(73million)toanotherruralareaswasquitehigh(53million)incomparisontofrom rural to urban areas (20 million)
About6millionmigrantswenttoruralareasfromurbanareas.Onthebasisofnetmigrantsbylastresidenceduringthepastdecade,i.e.,thedifferencebetween
inmigrationandoutmigration,ineachstate,Maharastrastandsatthetopofthelistwith2.3millionnetmigrants,followedbyDelhi(1.7million),Gujrat(0.68
million)andHaryana(0.67million)aspercensus.UttarPradesh(2.6million)andBihar(1.7million)werethetwostateswithlargestnumberofnetmigrants

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migratingoutofthestate.TherearevariousreasonsformigrationasperinformationcollectedinCensus2001formigrationbylastresidence.
femalemigrantshavecitedMarriageasthereasonformigration,especiallywhenthemigrationiswithinthestate.Formales,themajorreasonsformigrationare
work/employmentandeducation.
TABLE13:REASONSFORMIGRATIONOFMIGRANTSBYLASTRESIDENCE
WITHDURATION(09YEARS)INDIA2001
Reasonformigrations NumberofMigrants PercentagetoMigrants
Persons Males Females Persons Males Females
Totalmigrants 98,301,342 32,896,986 65,404,356 100.0 100.0

Reasonformigration:Work/Employment 14,446,224 12,373,333 2,072,891 14.7 37.6

Business 1,136,372 950,245 186,127 1.2 2.9

Education 2,915,189 2,038,675 876,514 3.0 6.2

Marriage 43,100,911 679,852 42,421,059 43.8 2.1

Movedafterbirth 6,577,380 3,428,673 3,148,707 6.7 10.4

Movedwithhouseholds 20,608,105 8,262,143 12,345,962 21.0 25.1

Other 9,517,161 5,164,065 4,353,096 9.7 15.7

Source:TableD3,CensusofIndia2001

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