Volume : III, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Migration and Population Growth: A Case Study of Assam

Bandana Chowdhury

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The tremendous influx of migrants into Assam has left it grappling with the massive problem of population explosion and has put enormous pressure on the socio–economic infrastructure of the state. A change in the demographic pattern in a country is an obvious resultant effect of migration, but if the change is significantly high in a short span of time it is bound to cause a serious socio–economic problem for the country experiencing this phenomenon. The paper focuses on the changing demographic structure of Assam in the context of sustained and large scale migration. Besides it estimates the impact of in–migration and immigration on population growth in Assam. Empirical evidence prompts the paper to conclude that the population in Assam is significantly affected by the intra–state and international migration, but not by the inter–state migrants. Besides evidence reveal that the population in Assam is significantly affected by immigration from Bangladesh and Nepal, but not from Bhutan.

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Bandana Chowdhury Migration and Population Growth: A Case Study of Assam Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VI June 2013

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