Kathmandu, Feb 6: Emphasis has been laid on policy-level debate for the socio-economic impacts due to increasing internal and external migration as well as of the provision of basic service facilities in mountain, hill and Tara in a proportional manner.
At an academic debate organised by the Central Department of Population Studies of the Tribhuvan University with the collaboration of UN International Office of Migration in Nepal here today, speakers urged to find out reasons and measures to stop migration as migration from mountain to urban areas and Tarai areas as well as foreign countries is increasing.
Stating that although birth and death of human is natural, migration is unnatural, Dean of Humanities and Social Science faculty of the Tribhuvan University, Prof Dr Kushum Shakya, stressed the need of appropriate policy to analyse the data of migration seen in recent national census.Similarly, Deputy Chief of National Statistics Office, Dr Hemraj Regmi, mentioned that though there is now no problem of high birthrate in the country, migration has become a problem and dimension.
He shared that as per the recent national census, around 4.4 million Nepali citizen were migrated inside the country and abroad.Likewise, Chief of Central Department of Population Studies, Dr Yogendra Bahadur Gurung, pointed out that studying the impacts of migration is the work of the academic world while Prof Dr Dinesh Bhuju argued that migration should not be considered as the matter of concern as it is taking place since ancestors.
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