A History of Migration to Bangalore

Abstract

Population in Bangalore during tha last 130 years has increased from 1.44 Million in 1871 to 5.68 million in 2001. The reasons for this is the increase in area of the city as seen in the enclosed map showing the major constituent units of Bangalore Urban Agglomeration in 2001 the reasons for this is due to (i) increase in fertility rate upto 80s (ii) decrease in mortality rates, (iii) incraase in area of the City due to urbanisatin of rural units around the city and futher growth of the core city itself owing to the incorporation of the surrounding area on a continuous basis over the year and (iv) Immigration or Citywardmigratin to Bangalore. One of the contributing factors under discussion is migration to Bangalore and hence other factors are not discussed in this paper.

The volume of inmigration to Bangalore is largely due to the industrialisation of Bangalore City since 1951 where the employment opportunities have been on the increase. Large scale construction activities, educational and employment oppurtunities, medical facilities, business and industrial activities, etc., availablae in Bangalore attracted large number of migrants.