Lok Sabha Question No. 2077 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-03-08
Subject: Migration of people
Ministry: LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT
Asked by: Parvesh Sahib Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2077

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.03.2021

## MIGRATION OF PEOPLE

2077. SHRI PARVESH SAHIB SINGH VERMA:

Will  the  Minister  of  LABOUR  AND  EMPLOYMENT  be  pleased  to state:

- (a)the steps taken for capturing data of the inter-State and intra-State migration of people during the last five years;
- (b)the  details  of  actions  taken  to  capture  District  and  State-wise number of migrant labourers during the said period;
- (c)the steps taken/being taken by the Ministry to calculate the impact of COVID 19 and lockdown on the migrant labourers and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (d)whether the Ministry is planning to measure the number of people who have reverse migrated to villages during COVID 19 pandemic and if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE (IC) FOR LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) & (b): Migration of workers from one State to another State is a continuous process and the migrant workers keep on moving from one State to other States in search of work.

According to the Economic Survey 2016-17 the size of the workforce as per Census 2011, was 482 million (48.2 crore) people and based on extrapolation, this figure  would have exceeded 500 million (50  crore)  in  2016.  If  the  share  of  migrants  in  the  workforce  is estimated to be even 20%, the size of the migrant workforce can be estimated to be over 100 million (10 crore) in 2016 in absolute terms.

(c): Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, has been entrusted with the task of conducting the All India Survey on Migrant workers. An Expert Group has been constituted  by  the  Government  of  India  on  9 th   September,  2020  to examine  and  finalize the schedules, sampling  design  and  other technical  details  of  the  aforesaid  survey  being  conducted  by  the Labour Bureau.

(d): The number of migrant workers who returned to their home State during lockdown is at Annexure.

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## Annexure

Annexure referred to in reply to part (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2077 for 08.03.2021 regarding Migration of people

|   SL No | Name of the State                  | No. of Migrant workers belonging to this State who have returned to their home State *   |
|---------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|       1 | Andhra Pradesh                     | 32,571                                                                                   |
|       2 | Andaman and Nicobar                | 4,960                                                                                    |
|       3 | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 2,871                                                                                    |
|       4 | Assam                              | 4,26,441                                                                                 |
|       5 | Bihar                              | 15,00,612                                                                                |
|       6 | Chandigarh                         | 39,230                                                                                   |
|       7 | Chhattisgarh                       | 5,26,900                                                                                 |
|       8 | Dadra &Nagar Haveli and Daman &Diu | 43,747                                                                                   |
|       9 | Delhi                              | 2,047                                                                                    |
|      10 | Goa                                | 85,620                                                                                   |
|      11 | Gujarat                            | 0                                                                                        |
|      12 | Haryana                            | 1,289                                                                                    |
|      13 | Himachal Pradesh                   | 18,652                                                                                   |
|      14 | Jammu &Kashmir                     | 48,780                                                                                   |
|      15 | Jharkhand                          | 5,30,047                                                                                 |
|      16 | Karnataka                          | 1,34,438                                                                                 |
|      17 | Kerala                             | 3,11,124                                                                                 |
|      18 | Ladakh                             | 50                                                                                       |
|      19 | Lakshadweep                        | 456                                                                                      |
|      20 | Madhya Pradesh                     | 7,53,581                                                                                 |
|      21 | Maharashtra                        | 1,82,990                                                                                 |
|      22 | Manipur                            | 12,338                                                                                   |
|      23 | Meghalaya                          | 4,266                                                                                    |
|      24 | Mizoram                            | 8,446                                                                                    |
|      25 | Nagaland                           | 11,750                                                                                   |
|      26 | Odisha                             | 8,53,777                                                                                 |
|      27 | Puducherry                         | 1,694                                                                                    |
|      28 | Punjab                             | 5,15,642                                                                                 |
|      29 | Rajasthan                          | 13,08,130                                                                                |
|      30 | Sikkim                             | 33,015                                                                                   |
|      31 | Tamil Nadu                         | 72,145                                                                                   |
|      32 | Telangana                          | 37,050                                                                                   |
|      33 | Tripura                            | 34,247                                                                                   |
|      34 | Uttar Pradesh                      | 32,49,638                                                                                |
|      35 | Uttarakhand                        | 1,97,128                                                                                 |
|      36 | West Bengal                        | 13,84,693                                                                                |