: Migrant workers are backbone of industry, deserve empathy, conducive ambience for livelihood #WorldNEWSAll The issue of the plight of migrant workers, both trained or specialized ones and manual labour,

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Migrant workers are backbone of industry, deserve empathy, conducive ambience for livelihood #WorldNEWSAll
The issue of the plight of migrant workers, both trained or specialized ones and manual labour, working in states away from home is complex at the best of times.
Labourers are an important component of an industry and migrant workers are more lucrative in terms of production, growth and profit. Primarily every industry focuses on low-cost productivity, and maximum return. And for this, migrant workers are the most sought-after in every state and in every country as well.
Migrants move out of their respective state in search of livelihood but for industries they are the cheap labour force that can be exploited for low-cost production and maximum returns.
Those at the helm of affairs are least concerned about their safety and well-being. In most of the places they are exploited and remain always vulnerable to abuse and torture.
The migrant issue in Tamil Nadu has once again raised the apathy of these workers and their pitiable plight. Both Tamil Nadu and the Bihar locked horn on the issue of safety and security and empathy top the farmers. Assurance form the Tamil Nadu government has for the moment placated the volatile atmosphere but no one can for sure say form how long.
On the migrant crisis in general, Professor Amitabh Kundu, Senior Fellow of the World Resources Institute, said, “Studies based on secondary and field data suggest that most of the Covid/Lockdown induced migrants have returned back to their destinations, with the withdrawal of travel restrictions over the past few months.  The migration rates have increased significantly in southern India over that of 2007-08 while it has declined in most north Indian states including Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra etc.  One would note that the differences in employment opportunities and earnings would overwhelm and overcome the factors behind short term crisis, increasing in north south mobility, backed up by demographic factors like changes in fertility rate and age composition. ”
Prof Amitabh Kundu
Prof Kundu added, “The total fertility rate of 2. 0 in India has gone down below the replacement level which would stabilise the population in the long run. The states like Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, however, have very high fertility when all southern states have achieved replacement level fertility, the figures for Kerala and Tamil Nadu being much below the national average. Also, the southern states have an aging population much higher than most of the northern states like Bihar, Jharkhand, UP and MP. Given this demographic advantage of the northern states, the southern states with better employment opportunities would continue to receive migrants.

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