'Migration' as a political issue has been remained live in the state of Uttarakhand from more than one decade since the state was formed in1999. Migration is a hot topic in present especially it has been mostly debated and discussed by the regional media in newspapers, magazines as well as in social networking groups and sometimes it is touched in the election time by the regional parties. In the social networking websites there are many wall posts related to migration of people from the villages to urban areas, where an empty house, school, hospital or a whole empty village is focused which shows that the pain of widespread out-migration emotionally touches the heart of people. When the state was carved out from Uttar Pradesh it was supposed that after formation, as the rate of development will improve in result the people will wish to stay here and the migration would go down. But as the time passed, the migration issue became more prominent and continues contributing in the hills plain divide.

Uttarakhand is India’s youngest state and came into existence in 2000. In Uttarakhand there are 13 districts¹ in which 9 are hill area district. According to the census 2011, the population of the state is 1.02 crores, which is 0.84 percent of the country. About 69 percent of the population lived in the rural areas. Uttarakhand covers around 1.7 percent of country area.