Migration Behaviour of Rural Youth in Haryana (original) (raw)

An Analysis of Causes for Rural Youth Migrations

2018

Large migration of youth from rural to urban areas presents a complex challenge before the academicians, researchers and policy makers and call immediate attention. Keeping in view, the present study has been taken with the research objective to explore the interests of rural youth (15-29 yrs) of Hisar district of Haryana, their thoughts forcing them for urban migration and its after effects perceived by them. The data were collected from 270 rural youth came from 18 randomly selected villages personally through an personal interview schedule. The causes of migration were categorized into push and pull factors. About eighty per cent of the respondents wished to be migrated from rural to urban areas due to one or the another reasons.About 19 per cent still showed their desire to remain in their villages and continue to be as farmer with more scientific farming. 34.44 per cent youth preferred inter-district migration followed by intra-state. About 17 per cent youth showed their desire...

Determinants of Youth Migration to Urban Areas in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology

Youth are considered as the pillars that provide support and strength to the country. India is said to be a land of youth and villages. This paper is an effort to analyze the socio-economic profile of rural youths of eastern Uttar Pradesh along with their Migration Status. The sample size of 160 rural youth was randomly selected for the study and data were collected through personal interview method during 2023. Multi stage random sampling technique was adopted for the study with the Descriptive research design. The study was conducted in Eastern part of Uttar Pradesh in the districts Chandauli, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, and Deoria. Two blocks were selected from each selected district. Therefore, total of eight blocks were considered for study. From each selected block, two villages were selected for the present research. Ultimately, Sixteen villages were selected. A total of 160 respondents were selected from 16 villages, 10 respondents from each village. To obtain the data from 160 res...

Return Migration of Rural Youth: A New Trend in Rural India

Journal of Global Communication, 2018

'Return Migration' is defined as the "voluntary movement of migrants back to their place of origin". It is the logical consequences of the successful achievement of all migration-related goals and targets. Return migration has been becoming a very common phenomenon in rural areas; and it may be due to factors like insecurity feeling in urban areas and lack of freedom in working place, opportunities created under schemes like MGNAREGA in rural areas and other family-related issues. When youths returned to their place of origin (Rural areas) they may not have much alternative to taking up as an occupation other than agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood, in this process the return migrated rural youths had faced and/or perceived many constraints in agripreneurship development. In present study 180 return migrated rural youths of southern India were purposively selected, constraints were operationalized as all the factors, such as social, psychological, economic, technical, marketing and infrastructural which obstruct the youths to take up agriprenuership. For measuring constraints, "Garrett's Ranking Technique" was Original Research Article

Return Migration of Rural Youth Vis-à-Vis Agripreneurship Development in Southern India

National Academy Science Letters, 2020

Return migration is a calculated strategy and natural outcome of successful experiences in the host destination during which migrants met their goals and expectations. Rural youths' return migration reflects considerable changes in the structural and functional system of rural areas, and when youths returned to rural areas, they may not have many alternatives to take up as an occupation other than agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood. The study was taken in purposively selected southern India with 180 return migrated rural youths. Low salary (RBQ 84.69) and exploitation by the others (RBQ 78.26) were the two most important push factors of return migration. To continue the family occupation (RBQ 78.43) and free in terms of decision making (RBQ 71.10) were the most significant pull factors, which influenced the rate of return migration. Aspiration of youths toward agripreneurship development was that the majority (53.89%) of the youths had a medium level of aspiration; however, 30.00 percent and 16.11 percent of youths had a high and low level of aspiration, respectively.

Why are Cities the Only Place for Dreams? Outmigration of Youths From Rural Uttarakhand

2012

Outmigration of rural youth from the hill districts of Uttarakhand has happened since time immemorial. However, within the past decade it has appeared as a frontline issue. This is evidenced by the massive increase in government and NGO rural livelihood development schemes directly and indirectly targeting outmigration throughout the state. This study investigates migration from the mostly rural districts of Uttarakhand to the urban centers of the plains, namely Dehradun and Delhi. It focuses on the prospective livelihood of young adults. Questions addressed in the study; (1) What are the different factors which influence migration of youths? (2) What are the different perspectives on migration, and what are the consequences of these different perspectives for rural development? (3) How are youths changing the traditional agricultural system? (4) Why are the dreams and aspirations of many youths only possible in cities? Three different samples are used in this study; migrants residing in Dehradun and Delhi, NGO and government associated officials, and village communities in hill districts of Uttarakhand. Observation, interviews, questionnaires, and focus group discussions are the primary means of data collection. Research themes discussed include issues of rural livelihood, young adults, migration, modernity, globalization, socialization and rural development.

Pattern and Implication of Youth Migration in the Garhwal Division of Uttarakhand, India

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology

This study examines the youth migration patterns, driving forces, reasons, factors of migration and consequences of out-migration in the Garbwal division of Uttarakhand. Data were collected from both primary and secondary sources .The district Tehri Garbwal comprises of nine blocks out of them two blocks Chamba and Thauldhar were chosen. Four villages Kainchu, Jaspur, Kot and Bhainskoti were selected for the study. Sample of 120 respondents was selected through PPS method. We used both qualitative and quantitative approaches to conduct this study. Data was gathered from both primary and secondary sources. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents (40.83%) belonged to 24-32 age groups, (73.33%) were men, 40.84 per cent had intermediate education, (67.50%) belonged to general category, 55.00% had medium family size, majority 40.00 per cent of the respondents were in service, 54.16% had moderate level of achievement motivation, 59.16 per cent had moderate mass...

Why I Left My Village: A study on migration from rural Bihar

This is a report on migration from three districts of Bihar - Gaya, Bhojpur and Aurangabad. The report was submitted to the European Commission as part of a project on labour rights in India. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand why young men are migrating from Bihar and what are the consequences. The report also contains a discussion on the national level policy implications.

A study on factors responsible for rural urban migration

International Journal of Agricultural Invention, 2020

Rural India is yet a larder of problems like malnourishment, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, sottishness and lack of basic infrastructure like schools/colleges, hospitals, sanitation, etc. This has pushed to rural youth moving out of villages to work in cities. Present study entitled “A study on factors responsible for rural urban migration” was conducted to explore the causes behind migration. The study was conducted in two industrially backward districts of Uttar Pradesh viz. Fatehpur and Banda. From each district one block, from each block four villages and from each village 10 respondents were selected through purposive random sampling from the list of families of rural migrants. Thus the total sample size was of 80 respondents. The data were collected by personal interview through structured schedule and simply analyzed through mean score and rank order. After making an exhaustive list of factors with the consultation of local people, causes were categorized in to five categ...

Profile characters of out migrants rural youth of Assam

2018

Migration is the movement of people from one geographical location to another in a given period of time. Assam is predominantly a rice centric agricultural state. The youth who are living in rural areas also mostly depends on agriculture. However, presently, a trend is observed that rural youths are now reluctant for farming activities and looking for alternate livelihood sources. Because of that they are moving out from rural to urban areas, mainly for non-farm livelihood activities. This also leads to large scale interstate out migration of rural youths from Assam. The study on profile characters of out migrants rural youths of Assam was conducted with 150 respondents. The respondents were rural youths of Assam migrated to Hyderabad and worked in unorganized sector. The Snow ball technique was applied to select the respondents. The study revealed that at the time of migration mean age was 22.04 years and at the time of interview mean age was 25.64 years. A majority (49.33%) of the...

The Factors Affecting Rural Migration: A Holistic Study

Anannya Chakraborty, S K Acharya, K Chethana, 2021

Rural to urban migration is a very common phenomenon as far as the social, economic and demographic changes are concerned. There are various causes regarding massive rural to urban migration which create a subsequent impact on urban population imbalance and extreme urban decay in India. The present study is conducted in Sira block of the Tumkur district. The area of the study is comprised of villages namely Devarahalli, Chikkanahalli, under Chikkanahalli gram panchyath. The The numbers of respondents were 60 and they were selected randomly. The data were collected trough pilot survey, structured interview and focused group interview. The statistical tools used for data analysis are correlation coefficient, step down regression, path analysis and factor analysis.family size (X 5), family material possession (X 10), per capita area(acre) (X 15)Per capita income from Agriculture and livestock-(X 16) and per capita annual other expenditures-(X 19) ;these are the independent variables which are significant with respect to dependent variable i.e. Y: Push Factor.