Trends and Pattern of Internal Migration in India

Young people under age of 15-24 years constitute 35% of India’s total population (2001 census). Not only does this cohort represents India’s future in the socioeconomic and political realms but its experience will largely determine India’s achievement of its goal of overall socio-economic development, population stabilization and harvesting its demographic dividend. Understanding migration pattern and the characteristic of migration is crucial for formulating migration related policies. So the major objective of the present paper is to show trends and pattern of migration in India.