Question

Gosaipur and Majauli are two villages in North Bihar. Out of a total of 850 households in the two villages, there are more than 250 men who are employed in rural Punjab and Haryana or in Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Hyderabad or Nagpur. Such migration is common in most villages across India. Why do people migrate? Can you describe (based on your imagination and previous chapter) the work that the migrants of Gosaipur and Majauli might do at the place of destination?

Answer 1

Answer:

Many people are shifting their base to urban to earn better livelihood. People who are migrating are unskilled ones. They migrate for better employment and better future of their families.

The employment opportunities in the developed places are grabbing the attention of migrants to move for better incentives. These migrants are hired by big famers giving handsome money while treating them as regular workers.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

There is a wide variation in the duration of employment. May be they were not getting a proper jobs with proper wages. And in the other places where the people migrate were more suitable for them to earn a living.

This could be the reason for their migration.