Dr. Anup Kumar Mishra Social Vision ISSN 2349-0519 RNI: APENG/2014/56403 Impact Factor: 2.322 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 July – Sept. 2020 Social Vision Volume: 7 Issue: 2 July – September 2020 1 | P a g e Socio - Economic Status and Issues of Reverse Migration in Varanasi District of the Eastern Uttar Pradesh Dr. Anup Kumar Mishra Associate Professor, Department of Economics, DAV PG College, BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Email: anupdav@gmail.com ABSTRACT Poverty, Inequality and migration issues have always been an area of concern and enquiry in various research areas. No one will doubt the relevance of the various dimensions of inequality in the Indian context and each of them independently and jointly calls for focused attention if the agenda is one of inclusive development. However, a relatively less researched area in economics, if not in some other social science disciplines as sociology, is that of social inequality based on social identity, such as caste and caste, like groups, has been a concern of sociology, it is, in our view, in sufficiently linked, let alone weaved, in to the domain of the economic correlates so as to deviate the interface between economic and social dimensions of development that has special appeal in the Indian context. With this background and the increasing social and political \assertion of the absolutely and relatively disadvantaged social groups underlined the need to highlight the economic condition of the people in new circumstances and also status of the migrants in the situation like COVID -19. Present study is based on the secondary data and primary data of the two villages, namely Karadhana and Newada of Sewapuri block in Varanasi district of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Key words: Poverty, Social Exclusion, COVID Background Poverty, Inequality and migration issues have always been an area of concern and enquiry in various research areas. No one will doubt the relevance of the various dimensions of inequality in the Indian context and each of them