Destination Region:

♤ Migrants are perceived to take away the jobs of the local, compete for basic amenities and city services such as water and sanitation, which has resulted in friction and violence.

♤ Incessant mismanaged migration has resulted in the formation of slums and ghettos, which sometimes act as source for outbreak of disease etc.

♤ Areas inhibited by migrants often report high criminal incidents owing to their relative deprivation.

♤ Natives dislike migrants as they fear that their culture and tradition is being destroyed by migrants.

Thus, interstate migration throws multiple challenges along with few opportunities. The challenges can be tackled and opportunities utilized if the following steps are taken earnestly:

♤ Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act of 1979 protects the rights of migrants and prevents their exploitation. However, this act is overwhelmingly ignored by state governments. As such, it articulates ideal working conditions for interstate migrants, but lacking provisions for enforcement, it has not been used to create a better policy environment in practice. It should be implemented strictly by the government to protect the migrants.

♤ Rather than treating migration as problem, destination states should aim to accommodate them into the economy of the state. There is ample evidence to support the fact that migrants generally take up those jobs and businesses which are not done by the locals.

♤ The planning of cities should keep in mind the needs of the migrants.

♤ Political class, civil society and NGOs should conduct inter group interactions to ward off mistrust between natives and migrants. Development of a composite culture without the distortion of local traditions should be aimed at.

♤ Schemes like Adhaar and Jan Dhan Yojna be implemented selectively for migrants to provide them social, financial and legal inclusion.

♤ Source states should re-orient their development policies so as to prevent the loss of their precious human resource and productive asset.

♤ Feminisation of labour in rural areas.