With Technical Skills Migration is not a problem

: Migration of labourers from Koraput district would not be a problem if they were capacitated with technical skills and abilities to cope up with the changing situation in a new place, said , Satyanarayan Choudhury , a social worker from Koraput . Non availability of work in the near vicinity and non availability of cultivable land in the district has been forcing men and women to far off places seeking for better jobs and living opportunities , he added. But without having any technical skills with them , very often get setbacks to their aspiration and hopes , Bimal Pattnaik , another social worker said . With a disorganized way of life , these people from the highlands of Koraput region were also not able to give education and care to their children , he added.
However successful case studies of the migrant labourers from far off Rajasthan who were working in the district for months together , could well be a living example for the district administration, Paresh Rath , a tribal researcher and proprietor of Annapurna Real Estate , at Jeypore observed . Beswaram Jat , a contract labourer from Rajasthan is one of such examples who , despite of the woes of migration was making a good deal of his life for the skill to run tractors in the field , while his 8 year old son Gajaram , along with two daughters , wife and parents stayed in his native village , Patau in Jodhpur district of Rajasthan .
Forced to migrate for lack of work in the desert districts adding to the absence of any possibilities to cultivate for the most of the year , many such labourers move out of Jodhpur , Barmer and Jaisalmer districts to distant places in search of work , Beswaram who had been coming to Koraput district for the last 10 years said . There were at least 20 persons in Koraput, Malkangiri and Nowrangpur districts taken together like him who were working day and night to develop land by leveling the land , cutting edges by adding additional tools like leveler, cutter, and heavy duty plough to their tractors .
While working for more than 12 hours every day and that too leaving their family members in the village for at least six months in a year , they have recognized the importance of each moment they spend, more than anyone else , Beswaram said . Moreover it was only for the skills they knew , that almost all of them were able to send some money to their families back in the villages out of their fairly manageable earning , Junjaram Jat , another labourers from Kudike in Rajasthan added .. While appreciating the role and importance of the age old joint family system in most of these houses , Juniram said that , none of them could have ever dared to move from place to place, if they were living in nuclear families . Now that their parents and women of the family stayed in the house they were able to offer a dignified living condition to the family members including good education for their children in the native village amidst their own tradition and culture , he added.