The current study explores the in-migration scenario in Nepal from neighbouring Indian states. This paper aim to address the goal number 17th of SDG, where migratory status, geographic location, legal identity, documentation, managing borders, and remittances were in focus. This is a study on labour migration from India to Nepal based on Vande Bharat Mission data. Under this mission nearly (14 thousand people) were repatriated from Nepal to India through Air India flights, in phase 8+ phase 9, phase 9+, and phase 10. Nepal stood at the top with (26 thousand population) requested for repatriation in South-Asian region. This is then followed by Bangladesh (11 thousand population), Srilanka, Bhutan, Pakistan with numbers less than 10 thousand people. Occupation wise we found that (93% workers) from India has registered the most in the repatriation program from Nepal to India. Which is then followed by others (5.03%), Professionals (0.50%), tourist (0.44%), visitors (0.46%), and students (0.32%). The workers are mainly employed in brick-kiln industries of Nepal as seasonal workers, and plywood industries of Nepal as full-time/one-year contractual worker.
According to Adhyagaman Book Nepal, one can find out that migration to Nepal from India is quite significant in number. An average of 15000 people heading towards Nepal from the Indian side throughout the year of 2019. The month of October is showing maximum number (30513 people), as this is the harvesting month of ‘kharif crops’ observed in India. So, people went to work after finishing their agricultural works. In a report of Middle ganga plain, there are (13.5%) of migrants from Bihar heading towards Nepal. According to Global bilateral migration data, India to Nepal is having a higher number of people (8 lakhs people) as out-migrants than the reverse scenario of Nepal to India with only (5 lakhs people) as in-migrants in India.
