Question

Population,
Activity
Number of migrated labourers are employed in various sectors including tourism,
hotel business and construction in Kerala. You might have seen people from West
Bengal and Odisha along with their family working in our state.
(b) What are the factors influencing the distribution of population?
(a) What are the different factors which attract these people to our state?
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Answer 1

Migrant labourers in Kerala, India's southernmost state, are a significant economic force in the state; there were around 2.5 million internal migrants in Kerala according to a 2013 study by the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation. Every year, the migrant worker population in Kerala increases by 2.35 lakh (235,000) people.[1] The study, based on long-distance trains terminating in Kerala, does not cover migrants from the neighbouring states who use other modes of transport.