AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF WORKING STATUS OF MIGRANT WORKERS IN CHHATTISGARH

Abstract

Generally, people migrate in search of employment or for better livelihood from one place to another place. They are the important segment of any country’s economy hence the migrant workers have a fair share in the process of development. According to their skill and working experience they are engaged various types of works. This paper tries to understand the engagement of the migrants in various types of works in the state of Chhattisgarh. The available secondary data of census 2024 is used to assess the employment engagement of these workers as per their age group. It is observed that a large percentage of migrants in Chhattisgarh are engaged as main workers and are in the age group of 35 to 39. Due to the enforcement of act of child prohibition in hazardous work, the engagement of children in the age group of 0 to14 is very less. The same kind of results have been observed in this paper. It is also observed that most of the migrants in the state of Chhattisgarh are not engaged in any kind of work, hence are classifies as non-workers. In the category of marginal workers, the highest percentage engagement is of those migrants who are in the age group of 20 to 24 age. This paper tries to fill the gap of studies conducted in the work engagement of migrants according to their age groups.