Synopsis
India’s total population, as recorded in the Census of 2011, stands at 1 21 billion. This figure has gone up since, and will be known at the end of the upcoming Census. Of this, internal migrants constitute a large population, that is 454 million i or 37 per cent of the population This still remains grossly under-estimated owiing to empirical and conceptual difficulties in measurement. Yet, migration -- one of the components of the nation’s urban growth -- is expected to increase in the foreseeable future
Migration in the country is primarily of two types:
(a) Long-term migration, resulting in the relocation of an individual or household, and
(b) Short-term or seasonal/circular migration, involving back and forth movement between a source and destination.
According to the National Sample Survey (NSS) estimates, 28.3 per cent of workers, or 175 million, in the country are internal migrants, who move for work in the informal section. supporting the life-line of the economies of many states.
For the first time in the history of the country, the Economic Survey of India 2017 acknowledged the issues attaching to internal migration It said that in the five years ended 2016, an average of nine million people had migrated between states every year for education or work. The survey showed that states like Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Gujarat attracted large numbers of migrants from the Hindi-speaking states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh, among others.
According to the survey, internal migration rates have dipped in Maharashtra and surged in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, reflecting the growing pull of southern states in the nation’s migration dynamics. Out-migration rate or the rate at which people have moved out of their state increased in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and dipped in Assam The survey reinforces the fact that less affluent states have more out-migrants and the most affluent states are the largest recipients of inter-state migrants.
There are many questions around inter-state migration/migrants. These pertains to the changing demography and consequently, social structure, and also outward remittances of migrant workers to their parent-states. These have socio-economic and politico-electoral consequences for both the donor and recipient states, especially the latter, particularly in the context of prevailing and evolving political dynamics and their influence on the society – and hence, the policies of the governments, both in the states and at the Centre
5:15 PM Registration & High Tea
6:00 PM Welcome Address
Gp Capt R Vijayakumar (Retd), VSM
Executive Director, Madras Management Association
Opening Remarks
Mr N Sathiya Moorthy
Convenor, Policy Matters - Chennai
Address by the Speakers
Dr Bernard D’ Sami
Senior Fellow, Loyola Institute of Social Science
Training and Research (LISSTAR), Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai
Dr Lora Deve Prasana
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work Stella Maris College, Chennai
Mr Arun Viknesh
Independent Researcher, Chennai
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