Covid may have forced return of 51.6% urban men to villages: PLF survey

The coronavirus pandemic may have forced 51.6 per cent of men in urban India to migrate to their rural homes in what could be the country’s worst reverse migration, according to a report released by the National Statistical Office.

The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted during July 2020-June 2021 collected information on migration and temporary visitors to households. The statistics office brought out the report titled “Migration in India, 2020-21” on the basis of information collected in the PLFS survey.

In India, since it is the male partner who migrates in search of work to urban places while the