Stakeholders in the field of population and development have said that in order to maintain the balance of the population that is currently concentrated in the Terai, a campaign of 'reverse migration', i.e. returning to the old territory, should be carried out.

They said that migration from north to south has been continuing in Nepal for a long time and now it has reached a high point. They say that this has created a multi-faceted problem as the mountains and hills have been emptied and the plains have been filled due to the sudden wave of migration. 

This is what the participants of the 10th series of the Migration School organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Central Department of Population Studies (CDPS) said.

Different countries of the world have reached reverse migration after a phase of migration, so they say that there should be a campaign to address this in Nepal too. In the

program, the associate professor of CDPS Dr. Padma Prasad Khatiwada proposed reverse migration while presenting the work paper related to population transfer and migration of Nepal according to the National Census 2078 . According to Khatiwada's work paper, 6 decades ago, 4.1 percent of Nepal's population migrated between districts.

Now five times more than that i.e. 20 percent of people migrated inter-district. In 1971, 4 percent of people migrated between provinces, now that rate has increased to 11 percent.

According to Khatiwada, the first census after the establishment of multi-party democracy in Nepal in 2048 showed the tendency of the population to focus on the Madhes. "After that, the development in the open environment, transportation and communication increased the migration in an unexpected way," said Khatiwada, "when the Arab countries were opened for foreign employment since 2049, the lines of migration began to spread not only in the country but around the world." Due to migration, the population of 34 districts of mountains and hills has decreased. Khatiwada said, "There is no alternative to reverse migration in order to maintain social and economic balance." She said that efforts to prevent or control it will fail. She said that it is the responsibility of the state to provide an environment where people want to live. is .