migration has been observed in the following cd blocks of bankura district: bankura i, chhatna, saltora, indpur, ranibandh, hirbandh, khatra, raipur and sarenga. although authentic figures are not available, a sample survey has been done. according to the sample survey, around 54.5% to 85.4% of the families on an average migrate from these blocks. another study shows that around 23% of the people from the under-privileged blocks in the western and southern bankura migrate. those migrating belong mostly to the sc or st population. they migrate for periods varying from 15 days to 6/8 months. most people migrate to meet their food deficit and go to bardhaman and hooghly districts but some go to gujarat and maharashtra as construction labour.