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Labour migration in India increasing at an accelerating rate, reveals new study: Economic Survey 2016-17

Labour migration in India increasing at an accelerating rate, reveals new study: Economic Survey 2016-17

Jan 31, 2017, at 11:35 pm

New estimates of labour migration in India have revealed that inter-state labor mobility is significantly higher than previous estimates. This was stated in the Economic Survey 2016-17 presented by the Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in the Parliament today. The study based on the analyses of new data sources and new methodologies also shows that the migration is accelerating and was particularly pronounced for females. The data sources used for the study are the 2011 Census and railway passenger traffic flows of the Ministry of Railways and new methodologies including the Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) .