Lok Sabha Question No. 291 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-11-30
Subject: Migration Problem among Rural Youth
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Bheemrao Baswanthrao Patil

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 291

ANSWERED ON 30/11/2021

## MIGRATION PROBLEM AMONG RURAL YOUTH

## 291. SHRI B.B.PATIL:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that the migration problem among rural youth has increased continuously in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
- (c) whether the Government has prepared any action plan to prevent the migration of rural youth; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

(a) & (b): As per National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), NSS 64th 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)          | All-India (Rural)                  |
|----------------------------|------------------------------------|
| Round(Year)                | Migration Rates (per 1000 persons) |
| 64th (July 07-Jun 08)      | 261                                |
| 55th (July 1999-June 2000) | 244                                |
| 49th (Jan-June,1993)       | 228                                |
| 43rd (July 1987- June 88)  | 232                                |
| 38th (Jan-Dec,1983)        | 209                                |

(c)  & (d):   Migration of workers in search of work from one place to another is a normal phenomenon. The problems of migration/migrant workers is sought to be addressed through multi  dimensional  course  of  action  through  rural  development,  provision  of  improved infrastructural  facilities,  equitable  dispersal  of  resources  to  remove  regional  disparities, employment generation, land reforms, increased literacy, financial assistance etc.

So  far  as  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  concerned,  the  Ministry  is  implementing various rural development  schemes  for creating employment  opportunities and rural infrastructure.  All  these  measures  encourage  people  to  stay  in  rural  areas,  earn  their livelihood  and  raise  their  quality  of  life  near  their  places  of  residence  and  hence  act  as  a deterrent to distress migration of rural population to cities.  The details are as under:

- i. Under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS),  guaranteed  wage  employment  of  100  days  in  a  financial  year  is provided  to  a  rural  household  whose  adult  members  are  willing  to  take  up  manual work. Further, 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.
- ii. Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is  implemented  with  the  objective  of  providing  self-employment  to  the  women members of the rural poor families by mobilizing them into Self Help Groups(SHGs).
- iii. Rural Self Employment and Training Institutes (RSETIs) provides for skill development programme for self employment. This training with access to Bank loans helps in creating self-employment opportunities at local level.
- iv. Shyama  Prasad  Mukherji  Rurban  Mission  (SPMRM)  is  aimed  at  developing  300 rural growth clusters called 'Rurban Clusters' which have latent potential for growth, in all  States and UTs with the objective to bridge the rural urban divide and reduce migration from rural to urban areas and eventually facilitate reverse migration.
- v. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana  (PMGSY) is aimed at providing connectivity by way of an all-weather road to eligible unconnected habitations in rural areas so that these habitations can have access to basic health services, education and markets for their produce.

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