India on the Move: Unravelling the Black Box of Commuting

S Chandrasekhar on June 23rd, 2015

In the last couple of decades, the number of two-way commuters between rural and urban areas on a daily basis has seen an explosive growth. This includes a large number of workers engaged in menial service sector jobs who do not have a fixed place of work. One could go out on a limb and claim that migration is passé and commuting is chic but the time has come for conversations on labor mobility to move beyond one that is migration centric to one that also includes commuting. Read More