Internal Migration in India: A trend of Million Plus Cities in 2011

Abstract

In the present times of the urbanizing world, humans' migration plays a decisive role, other than natural population growth, in urban centers' evolution. The highly urbanized centres across the globe, commonly labelled as the million-plus cities, act as a decisive pull factor for the migration among individuals, as these centres are the hubs of economic activities and immense opportunities. Through the present study, an effort was made to evaluate the internal migration trend of million-plus cities and their respective urban agglomerations in India. The migration data released by the Census of India was being used for 2001 and 2011 in the analysis. The growth rate and proportional percentage increase, both total and gender-wise, of migrants, were assessed. The findings depicted the influx of proportional in-migrants was more in southern India than in the north. In-migrants' growth was more in the newly forming million-plus cities than the old established one regardless of the respective large migrant base in their total population.