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 ofestablishing a new or semi-permanent residence. Migration is from a rural area to the urbanarea in search of new job avenues, improve their economic condition and to improve thestandard of living once they go back to their native. Migration denotes a person livingoutside his or her native place especially from a rural area to urban. Many leave their homesbecause there are not enough employment opportunities, low yielding land, more familymembers depend on the small land, food, water, work or other fundamental requirements likehealth benefits, education. Another important aspect is that the consequences ofenvironmental catastrophes, such as drought, floods, low prices for their products, disease tothe product can also force thousands to leave their native countries. Today people are movingtowards cities seeking employment opportunities. In this paper, the researcher wants to studyabout causes and effects of migration with the case study. The objectives are to know thereason for migration and the effects of their migration. 50 respondents were covered out of1400 migrated people from Bijapura colony, Lingappayana Kadu, Mulky, under simplerandom sampling method. Questionnaires method was used to collect the data. Both primaryand secondary data was included.