Distress migration from KBK region continues unabated

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Even though the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is widely perceived as a tool to reduce migration from villages to cities for work, this hardly holds true in the case of Odisha. Distress migration from the KBK region of Odisha continues unabated despite decade-long implementation of the rural employment scheme.