Abstract
This paper is based on a mapping exercise and focuses on the policy and the programmatic interventions taken up by the various states in India. The paper provides an overview of migration data at the national level from 2011 to 2017 and state level data for three highest sending states in 2017. It presents summaries of 6 states, namely Karnataka, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. Based on findings, it mentions that decentralisation of interventions for emigrant workers at the state level is essential to ensure that their rights are protected and while the central government must take the lead with developing policy and legal provisions. Migrant workers welfare must be at the centre of both policy and programme interventions. It concludes with a set of recommendations, which highlights good practices that can be used by states in their efforts to facilitate safe, regular and orderly migration, and safeguard rights of emigrant workers. The ILO Multilateral Framework on Migration 2006 has been used to foreground the recommendations presented in this paper.