India, April 23 -- Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said there is a need to create employment opportunities in rural and tribal areas to check migration to metro cities.

Addressing the second edition of Save the Earth Conclave, Gadkari further said the economic condition of farmers and workers in villages is serious.

"Youth, farmers and workers from villages are migrating to Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Pune due to lack of employment opportunities there. We should create employment opportunities in villages and tribal areas," he said.

The Road Transport and Highways Minister said youth and farmers are migrating from villages out of compulsion, highlighting 10,000 farmer suicides in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra....