RURAL AND URBAN MIGRATION

Migration changes the size and the structure of the population, which is an important demographic study.Prior to sixties, the migration was studied with reference to the place, duration of residence, rural, urban, district, state and even the reasons for migration from the last place of residence.

The statistical facts and figures reveal that there is a phenomenal disparity between the proportion of male and female born in one area of the district and enumerated in another. On the contrary, the incidence of males and females born on urban area is insignificant, though here again the females migrants are higher than those of males mainly attributed to the marriages, posting of employees etc. to rural areas.

Following Table  presents the district wise migration of population classified by the place of birth of the Kashmir region of the State.

Apart from the above, it is a fact that the immigration from and immigration into the valley is a natural sequence of its temperate congenial climate in the summer and severe cold in the winter months. The  intense cold and heavy snow  fall in winter compel the people of the region to move down  in early December into the plains of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi Calcutta etc. The large number of these seasonal migrants are unemployed farm workers who move in search of employment, and businessmen and fruit merchants who leave for other big cities of the country in order to dispose off their good, sell fruit and handicraft products to earn a living to supplement their income.  No problems have been so far experienced by such migration.