Recent Trend of Tribal Migration in Meghalaya Plateau

Meghalaya has the one of the largest concentration of scheduled tribe population in India. For absence of data it is not easy to get a precise estimate of scheduled tribe out-migration in the state. Fortunately census of India provides scheduled tribe out-migration data available at district level first time in 2001 census. The pattern of their out-migration however is not spatially uniform. The state has experienced significant rate of total and male tribal out-migration from the central part of the state whereas in term of intra-district it shows just opposite pattern. Large proportions of migrants are migrated in other north-eastern states from Meghalaya whereas Assam has observed about half of the total in and out-migrants from Meghalaya.