Determinants of Rural Urban Migration of Agricultural Labour in Tamil Nadu

Due to rapid transport facilities available for such quick movements. Hence it is a known fact that not only people from the rural areas move but also people from semi urban also move to urban areas owing to the greater potential for employment and better living conditions. Due to globalization, liberalization and due to rapid industrialization agricultural labourers have also migrated creating big gap in their availability and even the farmer who is interested to cultivate is not able to effectively do his occupation and hence forced to sell his lands by exploitation of the real estate agents. But the very fact remains that the entire World population have to depend only on the rural population who only feeds all. Due to migration, rapid urbanization has taken place which leads to certain negative effects such as heavy population, congestion, environmental pollution, scarcity for water, lack of shelter, sanitation, lack of proper employment and thus leading to increase in crime rate. In India, migration is mostly influenced by social structures and pattern of development. The study focused on the factors responsible for migration and concluded that age, wage and farming experience were the determinants influence the rural people to migrate urban.