Socio economic background and impact of migration from coochbehar district, West Bengal

Migration is not only the movement of people from their origin to destination but also the flow of human resources in multi dimensional aspects. So the cost benefit analysis is not enough to get a real picture regarding this phenomenon. It is often said that the 3R's (Recruitment, Returns and Remittances) are the cause –effect of migration but more than this there are also some hidden social and political ‘Big –push’ which operate behind this. Coochbehar, a poverty ridden district of West Bengal, once flooded with migrants from outside, now experiencing a massive out flow of migrants. Peoples are going outside as labour in different streams and migration is becoming a major factor for the changes of socio-economic and cultural spectrum of this area which is not measureable by any economic parameter. Our study which is based on survey and interviews during the month of June, 2015 is a search for the cause of this out flow and the impacts of this on our society.