MADURAI: Radio was an important source of information and knowledge formation among rural populace and played a vital role in empowering the masses, said M. K. Alagiri, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers. Delivering the inaugural address after formally launching the Gyan Vani Educational FM Radio Station (at 105.6) in Madurai Kamaraj University on Saturday, Mr. Alagiri said that at a time when commercialisation had become the central element among...

KEY TRENDS  • The new Cohort-based Migration Metric (CMM) shows that inter-state labor mobility averaged 5-6.5 million people between 2001 and 2011, yielding an inter-state migrant population of about 60 million and an inter-district migration as high as 80 million @* • The first-ever estimates of internal work-related migration using railways data for the period 2011-2016 indicate an annual average flow of close to 9 million migrant people between the states. Both these estimates are significantly greater than the...