Delhi has experienced high levels of migration in the last decade, with 2.2 million migrants moving into the city compared to only 450,000 moving out. The majority of migrants came from neighboring states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Haryana, and were predominantly male. Migrants cited work and employment opportunities as the primary reasons for relocating to Delhi. While natural population growth has accounted for 50-60% of Delhi's population increase, the percentage of growth from migration has declined even as the actual number of migrants has continued to rise significantly.

1. DEMOGRAPHY AND URBANISATION
A REPORT ON
MIGRATION IS MORE
IN DELHI
SUBMITTED BY :
BHUPENDRA PRATAP SINGH
2013BPLN010
SUBMITTED TO:
ASHFAQUE ALAM
Assistant Professor

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Introduction
This report is a brief description about the migration of Delhi in the last
decade. The report comprises of the component growth of population and
migrant component in Delhi along with the analysis and reason for migration
to Delhi.
Migration
Delhi having high number of migrants from other states in the last decade.
Total number of in-migrants in Delhi in the last ten years was 2.2 million in
number. The number of out-migrants from Delhi was only 0.45 million and
those who came from outside the country were only 49,281. Thus, the total
number of net migrants was 1.7 million in 2001 in comparison to 1.3 million in
1991. Major influx of population into Delhi was from Uttar Pradesh (0.88
million), Bihar (0.42 million) and Haryana (0.17 million). Migrations from these
states were male dominated. Sex ratio of net migrants in to Delhi was only 673
females per 1000 males. Migrants from all these states cited
‘work/employment’ as the most important reason for migration during the last
decade.
Growth of Population and Migrants component-NCT Delhi (1961-2001)

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Components of Growth in NCT-Delhi
The main components of the population growth are natural growth and
in-migration. The share of natural growth during the last four decade during
1961-2001 has been from 50-60 percent. Over the years component of natural
growth has increased and share of net migration has declined.
On an average 1.2 to 1.5 Lakh migrants were added per annum in the net
growth of Delhi’s population during last 30 years from 1971- 2001 .
The share of out-migration from Delhi has also increased from 2.42 Lakh in
1961-1971 to 4.58 Lakh during 1991-2001. Delhi has been witnessing a high
rate of in-migration, although there was a decline in the percentage share of
net migrants in the decadal growth of population in NCT Delhi from 45.1% in
1961-71 to 39.8% in 1991-01.
However, in absolute terms, the number of migrants continuously increased.
Component of Growth of Population in NCT-Delhi, 1971-2001
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Reasons for Migration in Delhi
According to Census 2001, the main reasons for migration to Delhi are
better employment opportunities and shifting of residence. Both these factors
account for 74.4 % of the total migrants to Delhi during the decade 1991-2001
as shown Table.
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Reasons for Migration to NCT Delhi in 1991-2001

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References
 Census of India 2001
 http://delhi.gov.in
 http://censusindia.gov.in
 http://ncrpb.nic.in