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Why are more females migrating from rural to rural areas higher in India?

 Question.

Why are more females migrating from rural to rural areas higher in India?  

(NCERT class 12 geography, India People and Economy, Chapter-2:  Migration: Types, Causes, and Consequences.)

Answer.

Migration means the change of residence of people temporarily or permanently. Migration is a very important factor in the redistribution of the population over time and space.

There are four streams of internal migration (within the country):

  • Rural to Rural (R-R)
  • Rural to Urban (R-U)
  • Urban to Urban (U-U)
  • Urban to Rural (U-R)

According to the 2011 Census, women predominate in rural to rural migration in both interstate and interstate migration due to the following reasons:

  • Rural-to-rural migration of most of the women is due to marriage. About 66% of women leave their parents' house after their marriage and go to their in-laws' house in another village.
  • Rural to rural migration is generally short-distance migration and for this reason, also women migrate as agricultural laborers.

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