Impact of Rural Migration on Savings of the Migrants (A Case Study of Tumkur District)

This research paper deals with the impact of migration on saving habits of the migrants before and after migration, since the origin of human race migration is inevitable, the primitive man used to migrate from one area to other area in search of food therefore migration is demographic or environmental phenomena. India is a country of more than seven lakh villages, major portion of the India’s population exists in the villages, and their primary source of livelihood is agriculture. In our country majority of the rural people are experiencing the problem of poverty as well as unemployment. Low productivity, seasonality and overcrowding in agriculture very often and force them in order to vacate their birth place in seeking employment openings in urban areas, the present research study is moving in the same direction to capture the effect of rural migration on human development in the context of saving capacity of the migrants before and after migration in the study area of Tumkur, Pavagada and Sira. As many migration studies stated that migration has resulted in increase in the income of the migrants which results an increase in savings which leads to enhance the quality of human life .In this paper primary data is collected and the tools like anova , regression and other tools are used to observe the impact of migration on income and savings of the migrants of study and findings are drawn as a result of migration the income as well as savings of migrants are positively increased in the study area.