Lok Sabha Question No. 2623 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-09
Subject: Migration of Rural Youth
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Saikia Dilip

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2623

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.07.2019

## MIGRATION OF RURAL YOUTH

## 2623. SHRI DILIP SAIKIA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether migration problem among rural youth has increased;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has prepared any plan to prevent the migration of rural youth; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

- (a) & (b): As per National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), NSS 64 th Round report, migration rates, including those of rural youths, for the period 1983 to 2007-08, from different NSS rounds are as under:

## All-India (Rural)

| Round (year)                |   Migration rates (per 1000 persons) |
|-----------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| 64 th (July 07-Jun 08)      |                                  261 |
| 55 th (July 1999-June 2000) |                                  244 |
| 49 th (Jan-June,1993)       |                                  228 |
| 43 rd (July 1987- June 88)  |                                  232 |
| 38 th (Jan-Dec,1983)        |                                  209 |

(c) & (d): Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  implementing  various  rural  development schemes  for  creating  employment  opportunities,  providing  access  to  basic  needs  and  creating rural infrastructure. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) provides guaranteed wage employment of 100 days in a financial year to a rural household whose adult members are willing to take up manual work. An additional 50 days of wage employment is provided over and above 100 days in the notified drought affected areas or natural calamity affected areas in the country on recommendation of the Ministry of Agriculture and  Farmers  Welfare.  Deendayal  Antyodaya  Yojana  -  National  Rural  Livelihoods  Mission (DAY-NRLM) is implemented with the objective of providing self-employment to the members of  the  rural  poor  families.  Deen  Dayal  Upadhyaya-  Grameen  Kaushalya  Yojana  (DDU-GKY) and Rural Self Employment and Training Institutes (RSETIs) provides for placement linked skill development  programme  for  wage  employment  and  self  employment.    DDU-GKY  guidelines provide  for  State  concerned  to  set  up  Migration  Support  Centers  (MSCs)  in  areas  of  high concentration  of  placement  of  skilled  youth.  The  Department  of  Rural  Development  is implementing  Shyama  Prasad  Mukherji  Rurban  Mission  (SPMRM)  aimed  at  developing  300 rural  growth  clusters  called  'Rurban  Clusters'  which  have  latent  potential  for  growth,  in  all States and UTs. The Objective of the Mission is to bridge the rural urban divide and to reduce migration  from  rural  to  urban  areas  and  eventually  to  facilitate  reverse  migration.  Besides, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G) and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) are also implemented to provide basic needs and developing rural infrastructure for improving living  conditions  of  rural  masses  so  that  distress  migration  of  people  from  rural  to cities could be reduced.

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