RURAL URBAN MIGRATION AND EMPLOYMENT QUALITY: A CASE STUDY FROM BIHAR

INTRODUCTION

Bihar is agriculturally based economy, more than 60 % of the total workers are involve in it. Due to
backwardness of agriculture sector the person involve in this sector have to face seasonal
unemployment problem. That is why the role of migration is very crucial in underdeveloped areas.
There has been long history of migration in Bihar. In Bihar the nature of migration are both within the
state and outside the state to other parts of the country and to same extent abroad also (rural urban
migration in Bihar, project report by IGC). Rural-urban migration in the last few decades has been the
main driver of economic development and growth. Bihari migrants have significantly contributed to
the growth process in other parts of the country (Labour Markets, Employment and Migration,
Development Research on Bihar, 2000-2010)

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Bihar is facing a massive challenges of out migration situation. Although MGNREGA has helped to
decrease migration, but to very small extent in context of Bihar. The migrants send the remittances to
their origin state but the source state have great difficulty in converting remittance income into
sustainable productive capacity. Apart from that the migrants from Bihar who have gone outside from
the state have to live in very worse conditions. The quality of employment is also not satisfactory but
in Bihar there is no opportunities of employment due to lack of public and private investment.
Agriculture productivity is also very low in Bihar

REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

(1) To understand the level and pattern of rural urban migration in Bihar.
(2) To understand the quality of employment of rural urban migrants of Bihar.
(3) To understand Impact of migration on living conditions of migrants’ households.
(4) To compare between migrants households and non-migrants households.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

(1) What is the level and pattern of rural urban migration in Bihar?
(2) What is the employment quality of migrants of Bihar?
(3) What are the impacts of migration on migrants’ households?
(4) Whether migrants households has benefited rather than non-migrants
households (who especially work in agriculture sector)?

HYPOTHESIS

(1)

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND DISCRIOPTION OF DATA

There will be adopted following methods

(1) Research type- The research would be both qualitative as well as quantitative.
(2) Data collection – Mainly secondary and partially data collection methods including Key
Informant Interview (KII) will be adopted.
(3) Data Analysis- Data collected from different sources will be triangulated and thematically
arranged in accordance with the requirements of research.
(4) Ethical consideration- All ethics consideration shall be adhered to.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mulubrhan Amare, Lena Hohfeld, Somchai Jitsushon, and Hermann Waibel No.309 (April 2012) Rural
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Datta Amrita (2016) Migration from rural Bihar. Insights from a longitudinal study (1981-2011)