Explain the causes of migration of unskilled migrants from rural to urban areas in India.

There exist different causes which are responsible for the migration of unemployed as well as unskilled workers from rural areas to urban regions of India.

The major causes of such migration are as follows:

(A) Employment:

People tend to migrate in larger number from rural to urban regions seeking employment. Agricultural base of rural regions does not provide employment to all the persons residing there. Even the cottage and small-scale industries of the village exhibit failure to provide employment to the whole rural population. Thus, it is found that a larger percentage of rural population migrate to urban centres seeking job opportunities.

(B) Education:

Rural regions, by and large, tend to lack educational facilities, particularly those of higher education due to which rural persons have to migrate to urban centres. Many of them, thus, settle in cities for earning a livelihood after completion of their education.

(C) Absence of security:

Political disturbances, as well as inter-ethnic quantity of people, have migrated outside Jammu & Kashmir in addition to Assam during the past few years because of disturbed conditions there.

(D) High population pressure on land:

Due to higher population pressures on land that leads to unequal distribution of resources as well as benefits, lower agricultural productivity may arise which in turns, results in migration of unskilled people from rural to urban regions.