Author(s):

TV Kumar and U Barman

Abstract: Migration is the movement of people from one geographical location to another in a given period of time. Assam is predominantly a rice centric agricultural state. The youth who are living in rural areas also mostly depends on agriculture. However, presently, a trend is observed that rural youths are now reluctant for farming activities and looking for alternate livelihood sources. Because of that they are moving out from rural to urban areas, mainly for non-farm livelihood activities. This also leads to large scale interstate out migration of rural youths from Assam. The study on profile characters of out migrants rural youths of Assam was conducted with 150 respondents. The respondents were rural youths of Assam migrated to Hyderabad and worked in unorganized sector. The Snow ball technique was applied to select the respondents. The study revealed that at the time of migration mean age was 22.04 years and at the time of interview mean age was 25.64 years. A majority (49.33%) of the respondent’s formal education was up to high school level and 89.34 percent were belonged to marginal farmers. Total half of the respondents (50.00%) were motivated by family members, and 36.67 per cent (36.67%) of the respondents were motivated by friends/relatives for out migration.

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