Title of the paper with the theme.

An Analysis of the Inter-State Migration and Regional Disparities in

India

Names of authors. : Shubhang Gomasta

Name of the College : Tamil Nadu National Law University

Email address and contact number.: shubhanggomasta1@gmail.com and 9566375338

Migration is defined as the transfer of people from one place to another in search of jobs, employment
among other factors In 2001,309 million persons were migrants based on place of last residence,
which constitute about 30% of the total population of the country. This figure indicates an increase of
around 37 percent from census 1991 which recorded 226 million migrants. Out of the total migrants 91
million are males and the rest 218 are females. Thus migrants constitute around 30 percent of the total
population, male and female migrants constituting 18 percent and 45 percent of their population
respectively. Of the total migrants, 87 percent were migrants within the state of enumeration while 13
percent were interstate migrants. Among the male migrants, 79 percent moved within the state
of enumeration while 21 percent moved between states. Among females, 90 percent were intrastate
migrants and 10 percent were interstate migrants. Migration happens more due to regional disparity in
development. People move from backward underdevelopment regions to developed and prosperous areas
in order to improve in their living conditions. This is found to be true both in international as well as in
internal migration. There is a close relation of the people migrating and the regional disparities present in
the specific regions. The paper tries to analyse the regional disparities and the close nexus its resembles
with the migration.