Effect of Internal Migration on Quality of Life of People at Tikapur Municipality

Abstract

This Thesis entitled “Effect of internal migration on quality of life of people at Tikapur Municipality” was carried out to find out the positive and negative effect of internal migration at Tikapur Municipality. For the research two wards of municipality were selected. Among them 250 of the total population were selected for the research that has spent at least 2-5 years after migration. Population was selected on the basis of purposive sampling. The present research is descriptive type in nature and the study was based upon the primary sources of data and census method was applied to collect information it was applied to collect the data. The collected data are shown by table and figure. The main objective of this study was to find out the positive and negative effect of internal migration at Tikapur Municipality.. In the study, the 64.8% of total respondent were migrated Tikapur Municipality for better educational opportunities and 18% of total respondent were migrated for security reason. Similarly 8.8% of the respondents were migrated for purpose and 8.4% of total respondent were migrated for the better employment opportunities. After leaving their own place 34% of the total respondents easily got the job. Here, 45.2% of the total respondent got job after some spending sometime in the place of destination. But 6.8% of the total respondents did not have the job so that they had to go India or other countries for employment and 13.2% of the total respondents are self-employed. Here, 5.2% of total respondent were engaged in trade, 14% were engaged in various jobs. The place of destination only about 12% of the total respondent is engaged in agriculture, whereas, 14% of the total respondents were engaged in other occupations like foreign employment and others14% of total respondents were engaged in various kinds of government and other private jobs. 10.8% of total respondent represents the other occupation like selfemployed, foreign job and other house hold jobs.At the place of destination 36.8% of total respondents are engaged in trade. More than 80% population of Tikapur Municipality is migrated from Achham district. Nearly 79% of total respondent were deprived from the health services.This is bitter reality of Nepal.In the comparison to place of origin,the place of destination has the 100% availability of health services. At the place of destination 36% of the total respondent have school within the distance of 10 minutes, whereas 64% of the total respondents have the school within 20 minutes of distance from home.In the comparison, Place of origin, 38.8% of the 9 total respondents have cycle for transportation. And 32.8% of the total respondents have motorcycle, 23.2% of the total respondents have bus as means of transportation. Similarly about 5.2% of the total respondents have bullock cart as means of transportation.After migrating to place of destination only 10.8% of the total respondents have the house made with wood and 89.2% of the total respondents have the modern houses. In comparison to place of origin 18% of the total respondents have access to safe tap drinking water at the place destination, whereas 82% of the total respondents have access to the hand pump this could be taken as safe source of drinking water.