{"id":88908,"date":"2019-03-18T18:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2019-03-18T18:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:54:36","slug":"migration-in-bengal-delta-driven-by-livelihood-issues-gender-disparity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migration-in-bengal-delta-driven-by-livelihood-issues-gender-disparity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration in Bengal delta driven by livelihood issues, gender disparity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A study titled \u201cDeltas, Vulnerability and\nClimate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECMA)\u201d has stated that economic\nreasons are the major cause for migration in the Indian Bengal Delta. The Indian\nBengal Delta comprises the Indian part of the trans-boundary\nGanges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. It comprises of two districts viz. South 24\nParganas and North 24 Parganas of West Bengal. <\/li><li>The study, DECMA, examined aspects of climate\nchange, adaptation and migration in Ganga Brahmaputra Meghna Delta (India and\nBangladesh) Volta (Ghana) and Mahanadi (India).<\/li><li>The Volta delta is formed when the Volta river\nof Ghana drains into the Atlantic Ocean. The Mahanadi and Brahmani rivers in\nIndia together form the Mahanadi delta where they drain into Bay of Bengal<\/li><li>The Ganges-Brahmaputra \u2013 Meghna delta spreads\nover of parts Bangladesh and Indian state of West Bengal. It is located where\nthe Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers discharge into the Bay of Bengal. It\nthe largest delta in the world.<\/li><li>The study has pointed out that after economic\nreasons, social and environmental reasons like cyclones and flooding are the\nmajor causes for migration. Further, huge gender disparity- male migrants being\nmore than female migrants.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study titled \u201cDeltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change: Migration and Adaptation (DECMA)\u201d has stated that economic reasons are the major cause for migration in the Indian Bengal Delta. The Indian Bengal Delta comprises the Indian part of the trans-boundary Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta. It comprises of two districts viz. South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migration-in-bengal-delta-driven-by-livelihood-issues-gender-disparity-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Migration in Bengal delta driven by livelihood issues, gender disparity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704883244},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}