Employability and Migration status of the people in Northeast India: A Capability Approach Framework

Paper Abstract: The study will discuss the skill issues of individual migrants from Northeastern states of India to different other parts of the country and within the Northeast India. The northeastern region faces the development bottlenecks due to the factors like insurgency & ethnic violence, infrastructure deficiency, lack of public private enterprise, geographical isolation along with the paucity of trained manpower, industrial activity, institutional finance. From topographic point of view the region has mixed presence of hills and plains. While Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim are almost entirely hilly, about four fifths of Assam is plain. Manipur and Tripura have both plain areas and hilly tracts. The hills accounts for about 70 percent area and accommodate about 30 percent of population of the region and the plain constituting the remaining 30 percent of area hold about 70 percent of its population. Livelihood options, enterprises and corresponding skill requirement of youths need to be targeted considering the specific characteristics of the region. The main objectives of this study are to analyze the migration story in Northeast Region and relate it with skill and education level. 

A capability framework will be considered to advance the understanding of migration of people and their employability in destination place. The core data set used in the paper will be National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) and Periodical Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of Government of India