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diseases due to lack of proper health care services. In remote areas of Nepal, we
cannot find good health services. So, this is the reason of decrease in population.

Causes of Migration

Migration refer to the movement from one part or place to another. It is also
the reason for population change. Immigration and Emigration are the major
reasons for change. Immigration means the action of coming to a place to live
and emigration means the act of leaving one's own place. The major reasons for
migration are:

1. Education Facility
People migrate from one place to another in search of good education facility
like: Schools, colleges, etc. Especially people of villages migrate to town or city
area so that they could get varieties of course to study as well as good schools,
colleges and universities. People migrate to get standard and higher educational
facilities.

2. Employment Opportunity
Employment helps the people to get a good job so that they can earn and
sustain themselves as well as their family. People migrate to industrialised or
urban areas which are more developed than village areas. So, developed places
with a number of industries or companies have chances to provide employment.
Good Salary is received through good company or industry located in city area
while in remote, people need to adjust.

3. Transportation and Communication Facility
Transportation and communication facilities are essential for various social
and economic activities like trade, commerce industries. In city or urban areas we
can find that there are good transportation facility as well as good communication
facility but still it's difficult in village.
4. Health Services

People migrate to get good health facilities. If an area or place has good
hospital or health posts people would like to go and enjoy the service. People want
to live where there are hospitals, health posts, nurses and nursing services so
that they don’t need to get ready to go to other places even for a serious disease or
injury.
Thus migration is also one of the major causes of population change. But migration
somewhere increases and somewhere decreases the size of population.

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