The Capital has long been a magnet for migrants. But over the past decade, not only did Delhi city (excluding the National Capital Region) receive more migrants than any other city in India, it was also ahead of every state. It accounted for the largest flow of migrants anywhere in urban India over a period between 2001 and 2011. According to a recent report by the Indian Institute of Human Settlement (IIHS), the two largest streams of migration to urban India are from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi and from Bihar to Delhi. Each of these streams consists of over three lakh people. IIHS studied the 2001 Census, the National Sample Survey (2007-08), and preliminary data from the 2011 Census (the Census 2011 migration data has not yet been released). Ironically, Delhi is still not as cosmopolitan as metros like Bangalore, where less than 50% of the population speaks Kannada, and Mumbai, where less than 50% speaks Marathi. IIHS director Aromar Revi attributes the high flow of migrants into Delhi to the fact that it has the highest per capita income and income growth among Indian metros — a huge concentration of wealth, resources, infrastructure and a relatively high quality of urban services.
Contrary to perception, migration does not contribute to the increase in India’s urban population as much as natural growth (people having children) does, says the IIHS report. While the report says that the net rural to urban migration has marginally increased from 21.2% in 1991-2001 to 24.1% in 2001-11, and there has, simultaneously been a marginal decrease in natural growth over the last decade with people having less children, natural growth continues to contribute the most to the growth.
TOP 10 MOVEMENT STREAMS
Uttar Pradesh to Delhi
Bihar to Delhi
UP to Maharashtra
Bihar to West Bengal
Tamil Nadu to Kerala
Bihar to Uttar Pradesh
Haryana to Delhi
Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat
Kerala to Tamil Nadu
Andhra to Karnataka
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