Context:
A confluence of changes in behaviors induced by a pandemic, rises in welfare programs, and expanding local infrastructure plans created a significant reduction in labor migration, bringing about serious labor shortages in a number of sectors. These changed circumstances hit construction, energy, and manufacturing sectors, forcing organizations to change their manpower approaches and seek different measures.
Most Important Factors Causing Decline in Labour Migration
Pandemic Attitude Shifts
- Comfort & Stability in Society
- Family, health issues, and security in the familiar have caused a post pandemic preference towards workers staying near their homelands compared to precarious urban environments.
- First Work Scenarios
- Job hopping has emerged where workers stop working after only months compared to being present on site almost for a year in traditional customs, again resulting in workforce turnover.
- Soaring Urban Costs
- Rising cost of living father exacerbated by the limited job security in cities erodes the careful consideration of migration to secure employment in the face of peace and lower costs at the locale.
Welfare Schemes Transaction
- Financial Security
- Programs like Ladki Bahin and many others directly assist in solidifying the financial security of rural families so that they do not have to immediately seek urban employment.
- Food Security
- One Nation One Ration enables migrant workers to take advantage of subsidized food anywhere in India, reducing their reliance on migrating for survival.
- Migration Support Systems
- Initiatives like migration corridors and the National Migration Support Portal help workers secure employment, housing, and services, thereby enabling them to remain close to their local regions.
Rural Infrastructure Projects
- Home Based Job Opportunities
- These small scale infrastructure projects, short of official changes in industrialization in the state of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in fact wild workers at jobs in their homes, where they are remunerated nearly as much as when they would be working in the urban.
- Rural Industrial Development
- Work migration for the same wages is not a ego ride in employment to numerous workers. Instead, they would rather accept occupations quite close by that home itself.
