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a district gets married with a male of another district, there is increase of population
in male’s district whereas decrease of population in female’s district. Similarly, when a
female gets married with a foreigner, she will have international migration. There is
decrease of population in female’s country whereas increase of population in foreigner’s
country.

ii. Educational opportunities
Education is very important in our life. It leads us
from darkness to light. It provides us knowledge and
skills. It helps us to judge what is right and wrong and
supports in taking right and responsible decisions in
life. When people are educated, they have opportunities
for better employment as well. Generally, rural areas
lack schools and college. Many students from rural
areas from different parts of Nepal migrate to either
big cities or Kathmandu for higher education. Every Fig: 21
year many students migrate to foreign countries to
study in various universities. Actually, the students as well as educated people keep on
migrating from one place to another in search of better opportunities.

iii. Availability of facilities
Food, clothes, shelter, health services, education,
transportation, communication, sanitation, drinking
water, electricity, etc. are important parts of our life.
Availability of such facilities makes our life easier
and comfortable. People can have happiness and
improvement of living standard with the availability
of such facilities. Rural areas lack various facilities
like health services, education, transportation,
communication, electricity, entertainment activities, Fig: 22
etc. All those facilities are easily available in urban
areas. The developed foreign nations have availability of many facilities and other
opportunities as well. Hence, people tend to migrate from rural areas to urban areas and
from urban areas to developed foreign countries in search of better facilities.

b. Economic factors

i. Employment opportunity
Everyone needs some sort of job opportunities
to sustain their life. People can have happiness,
fulfillment of desires, maintenance of peace and
prosperity in life with generation of better income.
There is more establishment of offices, industries,
factories, institutions commercial sectors in the urban
areas. People can easily get job opportunities there
Fig: 23
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