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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Exploring Rural-Urban Dynamics- A Study of Inter-State Migrants in Gurgaon

Exploring Rural-Urban Dynamics- A Study of Inter-State Migrants in Gurgaon

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published Published on Mar 27, 2014   modified Modified on Mar 27, 2014
-Society for Labour and Development


The key findings of the report entitled Exploring Rural-Urban Dynamics- A Study of Inter-State Migrants in Gurgaon: Researching Labour and Migration between Home and Destination States and Developing a Holistic Rural-Urban Approach (2014) is provided below:

1. Overwhelming majority of the inter-state migrants in Gurgaon are men in the age group of 18 to 40 years. While garment industry elsewhere has majority of female workers, Gurgaon's export-oriented garment industry is dominated by migrant men from U.P., Bihar and Jharkhand.

2. Most of these workers migrate alone from the rural area. Their reason of not bringing the spouses or other family members to Gurgaon are mainly two-folds: high cost of living and low wages in Gurgaon and to keep a claim on a piece of family land in a native village.

3. Family of a worker in a village earns even less than worker's income in Gurgaon. Most of the workers in Gurgaon earn between Rs. 5000 to 7000 per month while most of the families of the workers in the villages earn less than Rs. 5000 per month.

4. The migrant workers are invisible for the administration hence they do not figure in the town and city development planning. They neither possess voting id cards nor bank accounts in Gurgaon as they can not gather the documents required to get these basic identity proofs. Due to temporary and contractual nature of their job, migrants do not want to surrender their ration card in a village to acquire a new ration card in Gurgaon. As a result, they are not entitled to be covered under social welfare schemes in Gurgaon while they do not receive benefits of social security schemes in their village due to their physical absence. Almost all the migrant workers in Gurgaon use LPG as a cooking fuel which they have to buy in a black market at a price of Rs. 1450 per cylinder. This consumes up to 20% of their monthly income.

5. Migration has emerged as a strategy of survival for most of the families in rural areas. Migration of a family member is not resulting into improvement of family's financial conditions; however, it is helping them in not further slipping into poverty trap. Majority of the migrants send remittances home, albeit irregularly. Most of them annually send about Rs. 10000 to Rs. 15000 home through bank transfers.


The report has been prepared by a team of researchers from Society for Labour and Development, and the project has been supported by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia.

Please click here to download the entire report.


Society for Labour and Development, March, 2014, http://www.sldindia.org/


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