Uday Deb
65% of households have a migrant. Their remittances are 50% of a household’s income. Outmigration tripled Bihar’s rural wages, ended exploitative relations. Manufacturing employs just 5%. And it’s impossible for the state to create enough jobs for its growing youth population. In 2025, 12.8L completed secondary school. Also 27% of the population is below 15
Political parties call for a halt to outmigration every assembly election. Much debate follows.
All of it is oblivious to Bihar’s historical development experience and reality.
Migration from Bihar dates to colonial times, when the British sent peasants and workers as indentured labour to Fiji, Mauritius and Caribbean countries.
Many Biharis also moved to Calcutta and Assam’s tea gardens.
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Views expressed above are the author’s own.
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