ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on youth migration, comprising the education and employment led migrants from the eight northeastern peripheral states to the four major destinations Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and West Bengal. It explores the ability quotient/skill levels of migrants originating from the northeastern regions, and examines the patterns of the migration cohort groups at the destinations. The capability level of north-eastern youth migrants determined while focusing on the age group of 15-34. Whereas for the literate category, it is 771 in the north-eastern region, which is much less than the all-India level of 859. A cohort of migrants means the number of people staying at a particular destination from the same place of origin. Investigating migration cohorts is useful as the chapter revolves around issues of mobility from the place of origin to the destination along with the duration aspects of it; hence it detects the origin-wise migration cohorts at the destination.
