To help about 8.5 lakh migrants who returned their home state during covid 19, with a good livelihood, the State Government of Jharkhand started the State and Responsible Migration Initiative in 2021.

• The Jharkhand Government recently launched the first survey of Migrants. Jharkhand is not the only state to launch such states. Several other states like Tamil Nadu and Punjab had already launched such surveys.
• The survey is to be conducted in 24 districts. Officers will knock on the doors of 11,000 households to take the survey
• The survey outputs will be used to create a state-level policy.