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Migration refers to a change in individual usual place of residence from one defining area arising out of various social, political and economic reasons to another. In the metropolitan states like Delhi, the rate of migration has declined or at least stabilized and migrants are setting down in NCR (national capital region) with nominal property rates. However, Delhi continues to be a favorable destination for large number of people seeking livelihood due to better employment opportunities, education and many other reason. This suggests that socio-economic changes in the last decade have greatly affected the mobility of population. This paper makes an attempt to identify various reasons for migration in Delhi and their respective contribution over the last three decades and also identify factors leading to migration and their respective relation with the dependent variable migration. Factors are stratified into economic and non-economic. Economic factors include employment measured as Number of people employed in private sector. Non-economic factors include education measured as number of senior secondary school set up in Delhi. It was found that from period 2002-2009 when employment opportunities increased in private sector it worked as an opportunity cost for people to migrate to Delhi in order to earn enough to fulfill their basic needs which cannot be fulfilled while staying in their native region. It was also found that increase in number of senior secondary schools in Delhi taken as non-economic factor leads to an increase in migrants as studies shows that it act as an opportunity for the people of other states to provide their children with better quality of education. There exists further scope to analyze quality education of different states with respect to migration.