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Which waveRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Migration bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The first Human Development Report was published in 1990 by:Read the answer and worked solution →The most significant aspect of human development is enlarging the range of people's:Read the answer and worked solution →The 1993 Human Development Report said development must be woven around:Read the answer and worked solution →India is ranked 130 among how many countries in the HDI?Read the answer and worked solution →With an HDI value of 0.640, India is grouped among countries of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which body prepared the Human Development Report for India using states as units?Read the answer and worked solution →Gross National Product per capita is used to measure a country's:Read the answer and worked solution →In 2011-12 the share of India's population below the poverty line was estimated at:Read the answer and worked solution →Which state group recorded more than 30 percent of people below the poverty line?Read the answer and worked solution →Poverty in absolute terms reflects an individual's inability to satisfy basic:Read the answer and worked solution →GDP does not fully reflect quality of life because it ignores factors like housing, transport and:Read the answer and worked solution →The flagship programme aiming at a pollution-free, open defecation-free India is:Read the answer and worked solution →The Swachh Bharat Mission includes supplying which clean fuel to rural households?Read the answer and worked solution →India's death rate fell from 25.1 per thousand in 1951 to what in 2015?Read the answer and worked solution →In which two developed states is the child sex ratio below 850 girls per thousand boys?Read the answer and worked solution →Overall literacy in India in 2011 was approximately:Read the answer and worked solution →Which state has very low literacy of 63.82 percent?Read the answer and worked solution →Kerala and Mizoram have literacy rates of about:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Planning Commission's state HDI, which state topped with a value of 0.790?Read the answer and worked solution →Which states are at the bottom of the state HDI ranking?Read the answer and worked solution →Freedom from hunger, poverty and illiteracy is the key to:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the top HDI statesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Swachh Bharat aimsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the development wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Improved or worsenedRead the answer and worked solution →Poverty bandsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which wave

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Items
  1. Group
    Colonial
    Item
    Indentured
  2. Group
    Colonial
    Item
    Mauritius
  3. Group
    Colonial
    Item
    Girmit Act
  4. Group
    Gulf
    Item
    Oil boom
  5. Group
    Gulf
    Item
    Semi-skilled
  6. Group
    Professional
    Item
    Doctors
  7. Group
    Professional
    Item
    Software
  8. Group
    Professional
    Item
    USA Canada
Groups
  1. Item
    Colonial
  2. Item
    Gulf
  3. Item
    Professional
Instructions
Drop each group onto the wave of Indian emigration it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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Type the number

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Questions
  1. Answer
    1881
    Question
    Year the Census first recorded migration
  2. Answer
    37
    Question
    Percent of Indians who were migrants in 2011, about
  3. Answer
    4
    Question
    Streams of internal migration
  4. Answer
    67
    Question
    Percent of females who migrate for marriage, about
  5. Answer
    26
    Question
    Percent of males who migrate for work
  6. Answer
    11
    Question
    Billion dollars of remittances India received in 2002
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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Migration bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Poverty or disaster that drives people out.
    Item
    Push factor
  2. Clue
    Work and wages that draw people in.
    Item
    Pull factor
  3. Clue
    Contract system for colonial labour.
    Item
    Girmit
  4. Clue
    Migrant by place of birth.
    Item
    Life-time
  5. Clue
    Money sent home by migrants.
    Item
    Remittance
  6. Clue
    State receiving the most migrants.
    Item
    Maharashtra
  7. Clue
    State with most net out-migrants.
    Item
    Uttar Pradesh
  8. Clue
    Main reason women migrate.
    Item
    Marriage
  9. Clue
    Where marriage migration is reversed.
    Item
    Meghalaya
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 2, Migration: Types, Causes and Consequences._

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