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Understanding Bihari Labour Migrants in India's North Eastern Region


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Bihar is one of the most populous states of India. Poor socio-economic conditions and lack of employment opportunity at home push the rural community of Bihar to migrate to other states for their livelihood. Using primary data collected from two states of the India's north-eastern region: Assam and Sikkim (with higher number of Bihari in-migrants among the interstate migrants) the paper tries to find out different factors responsible for out-migration of the rural people of Bihar.

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Bihar, Economy, Labour, Migration, NER.
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Authors

Sneha Mishra
Department of Economics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
Komol Singha
Department of Economics, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Abstract


Bihar is one of the most populous states of India. Poor socio-economic conditions and lack of employment opportunity at home push the rural community of Bihar to migrate to other states for their livelihood. Using primary data collected from two states of the India's north-eastern region: Assam and Sikkim (with higher number of Bihari in-migrants among the interstate migrants) the paper tries to find out different factors responsible for out-migration of the rural people of Bihar.

Keywords


Bihar, Economy, Labour, Migration, NER.

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