More and more women migrate to Bhubaneswar

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BHUBANESWAR: The Capital City is slowly turning into a hub of migrants, mostly women engaged in the farm sector. With the infrastr..

BHUBANESWAR: The Capital City is slowly turning into a hub of migrants, mostly women engaged in the farm sector. With the infrastructure sector witnessing a boom, more and more women have been shifting from rural pockets to Bhubaneswar lured by the prospects of greener pastures.
The Directorate for Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA), an arm of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), has been conducting a study on migration of women from farm sector and rural Orissa to Bhubaneswar and it shows the migration trend. Basing its sample study on four labour chowks of the City where women workers gather every morning to be engaged by the contractors the study shows that most of the workers are from Ganjam district.

"They find Bhubaneswar more alluring in terms of income generation than Berhampur and the obvious reason is the growth of infrastructure sector," said Dr Krishna Srinath, Director, DRWA. However, given a chance, most of the women conceded that they would go back to agriculture if it managed to sustain them.

Though the DRWA study has nothing to do with the real estate study, it reinforces the fact that the boom in the rapidly growing housing sector has been luring the women from agriculture to the Capital.

With dip in crop yield, the returns have been lesser by the day and so has the sustenance level of the farm sector which is reflected in the reducing participation of women in agricultural force from 78 per cent in 1981 to 73.8 per cent in 2001.