Dehradun, Aug. 10 -- The Uttarakhand Migration Prevention Commission will prepare a report examining the socio-economic status of 1,114 villages along the state's borders with China and Nepal, officials said. The study will assess the livelihoods of people living in these villages, their sources of income and the extent to which they are benefiting from government schemes, commission vice-chairman S.S. Negi said. "We are preparing a report on the rural landscape of the state. In the first phase, we are focusing on the socio-economic status of 1,114 border villages," he said. Negi said the report could take a few months to complete as commission staff are currently engaged in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Officials said border villages were strategically important and that migration from these areas was a matter of concern. They said sustained efforts were needed to develop the villages, encourage people to stay and repopulate areas that had witnessed migration. A total of 91 border villages in Uttarakhand have been selected under the Union government's Vibrant Villages Programme to strengthen infrastructure, curb migration and enhance security. These include 51 villages along the China border and 40 along the Nepal border in districts including Pithoragarh, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar. The state government constituted the Rural Development and Migration Prevention Commission in August 2017 to examine the various aspects of migration, formulate a vision for the focused development of rural areas and recommend measures to check migration. The commission submitted its first state-wide migration report in 2018 and released 26 reports so far. Its latest report, submitted to the government in April 2026, highlighted the growing impact of human-wildlife conflict on rural livelihoods and migration. Monkeys and wild boars account for nearly 60% of crop damage caused by wild animals in Uttarakhand, the report said. The commission's first report found that 383,726 people had migrated temporarily from their villages between 2011 and 2018, while 118,981 had migrated permanently during the period. A report released in March 2023 said 307,310 people had migrated temporarily and 28,531 permanently between 2018 and 2022. Permanent migration between 2011 and 2018 affected 3,946 gram panchayats, compared with 2,067 between 2018 and 2022. Temporary migration affected 6,338 gram panchayats between 2011 and 2018 and 6,436 between 2018 and 2022....