UTTARAKHAND MIGRATION REDRESSAL COMMISSION’S LATEST REPORT INDICATES THAT EXODUS TO PLAINS FROM INTERIOR VILLAGES HAVE INCREASED COMPARED TO WHAT IT WAS DURING THE LAST DECADE !
The Uttarakhand Palayan Nivaran Aayog of Uttarakhand ( Uttarakhand Migration Redressal Commission) has in its recent report disclosed that from 2018 to 2022-23 there had been migration of 3 lakh 35 thousand people whereas during the last ten years from 2008 to 2018 there had been migration of mere five lakh people from Uttarakhand villages to cities, towns and metropolises.
Out of these total migrated population there had been 70% people migrating to plains for jobs, about 12 to 15% for giving best education to their children and rest due to lack of health facilities and consequences due to natural disasters etc.
What is interesting here to note is the hard fact that that as per Uttarakhand Migration Redressal Commission’s latest report the migration out of interior villages to cities, towns and metropolises have been increasing than before, despite various claims of the state government controlling this worrisome trend by creating self employment avenues.
This means that the successive state governments either of Congress party or BJP have squarely failed to arrange job avenues for the inhabitants of Uttarakhand in the state at the decentralised levels including providing them and their families adequate health facilities, education to their children and roads connectivity. It’s not a hidden fact that hundreds of primary and middle schools have been closed in interior villages in view of surging migration out of the rural areas.
The report also reveals that out of 17000 villages while more than 6 thousand villages are still devoid of roads – about 1800 villages have become ghost villages with not a single person living there and similarly other villages likely to follow suit, gradually in view of man eater attacks, attacks of monkeys, wild pigs and other wild animals including natural disasters like Joshimath crisis, 2013 June ecological disaster, Rainy Dhauli Ganga flash floods etc. Kindly recall that entire Reiny village of Chipko legend Gaura Devi has been completely vacated due to subsidence and calamity not prone for safe living.
According to the renowned social activist of Uttarakhand and founder of SDC Anoop Nautiyal there have been lot of claims by the state government of creating self employment avenues in the state but the four areas which witnessed some potential in this regard are opening of petty grocery shops in villages n towns, earning through milk and vegetable generated through local indigenous sources and income through taxi services, but the point is are we sticking ourselves to these income generation sources only giving up other constructive sources of self employment through IT potential and other important start ups that are more generative, potential oriented and respectable for educated youth asked Anoop Nautiyal.
Kindly recall that in the past there had been lot of talks about migration exodus from Uttarakhand to metropolises with more than thirty lakh people having left the hilly state during the past two to three decades and subsequent claims by successive governments of reverse migration projects becoming successful. But fact is topsy turvey after the latest report of Uttarakhand Migration Redressal Commission. What’s your take friends?
