Welcome to Uttarakhand Rural Development and Migration Prevention Commission

BACKGROUND

Migration from rural areas in Uttarakhand is a serious problem with a comparison between 2001 and 2011 census data showing a very slow decadal growth of population in most of the mountain districts of the state. An absolute decline in the population of Almora and Pauri Garhwal districts between 2001 and 2011 points towards a massive out flux of people from many hill regions of the state. The pace of out-migration is such that many of the villages are left with a population in double digits. Data also points towards a high rate of decadal increase in population in districts like Dehradun,UdhamSingh Nagar,Nainital and Haridwar while this is negative in Pauri and Almora districts and abnormally low decadal increase in Tehri,bageshwar,Chamoli,Rudraprayag and pithoragarh districts.

The Uttarakhand government has constituted the Rural Development and migration Commission in August 2017 to examine all aspects of the problem, evolve a vision for the focused development of the rural areas of the state; advice the government on multi-sectoral development at the grassroots levels which would aggregate at the district and state levels and also submit recommendations to the government on various other related matters.

SUGGESTIONS

We welcome your suggestions for meeting the challenge of out-migration from the rural areas of the state and facilitating multi-sectoral rural development for arresting a out-migration.

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