EMERGING ISSUES IN INDIAN ECONOMY — Economics STD 12 Commerce — Question
Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceEconomicsEMERGING ISSUES IN INDIAN ECONOMY3 Marks
Question
Explain briefly the economic causes of migration.
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Answer
Economic causes:
$1.$ For employment, occupation and business:
A person migrates to another place for employment, occupation and business.
$2.$ Transfer:
When a person employed by a company is transferred from one place to another distant place, he is forced to move to that place.
$3.$ Extant of natural resources:
When a particular place has abundance of natural resources, but quite less population relatively, people migrate to that place.
Example:
Mines of gold and diamond, regions where petroleum is found, oil refineries, etc. are places that require technical staff in a huge number. Hence, people migrate to places like $UAE,$ Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. where such opportunities are widely available.
$4.$ To attain better quality education:
A person aspiring for better education migrates to places that offers such facilities and later settles their permanently.
$5.$ To get modern health services:
When a person does not get required health services in his own region, he forcibly migrates either temporarily or even permanently to places that offers better health facilities.
$6.$ Planned migration:
When a family sends one or more persons away from the native place for economic activity to a distant place it is called planned or organized migration.
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