A Study on Causes and Effects of Migration from Rural to Urban: A Case Study of Bijapur Colony- Ligapayyankakadu, Mulki

Abstract

Migration is the movement of people across a specified boundary for the purpose of establishing a new or semi-permanent residence. Migration is from a rural area to the urban area in search of new job avenues, improve their economic condition and to improve the
standard of living once they go back to their native. Migration denotes a person living outside his or her native place especially from a rural area to urban. Many leave their homes because there are not enough employment opportunities, low yielding land, more family
members depend on the small land, food, water, work or other fundamental requirements like health benefits, education. Another important aspect is that the consequences of environmental catastrophes, such as drought, floods, low prices for their products, disease to the product can also force thousands to leave their native countries. Today people are moving towards cities seeking employment opportunities. In this paper, the researcher wants to study about causes and effects of migration with the case study. The objectives are to know the reason for migration and the effects of their migration. 50 respondents were covered out of 1400 migrated people from Bijapura colony, Lingappayana Kadu, Mulky, under simple random sampling method. Questionnaires method was used to collect the data. Both primary and secondary data was included.