In today’s world the rapid pace of urbanization has propelled many challenges in cities and recent phase of developing cities as smart cities has even increased challenges in urban sectors. One of the major challenges that urban sectors are facing today is migration and migration has been a trend since ancient times but the intensity of migration in 21st century has brought with itself various, whether it is increase in slums, pressure on existing infrastructure of the cities and obstacles in providing a better level of standard of living by the local administration as demand has propelled many times in respect to supply and uneven settlement of this segment of population has even worsened the condition by hampering the supply chain, as there has been large influx of migrating population in the city and there has been a constant tug of war between development and development for all which entails providing basic amenities to all but even distribution of the population and perception of the population has also increased the problem. The positive aspect of seeing migration as a problem is employing this population of working age in productive employment opportunities which to some extent help in curtailing the differences between have and have not. In light of this the current paper has tried to dwell in to the problem of migration in city of Varanasi as this trend of migration has created multiple issues such as, a question mark on rural development, an increased burden on infrastructure of urban areas and imbalance in overall economic development. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration pattern, impact of migration on socio-economic variables of the migrated population in the city of Varanasi one of the holy city of Uttar Pradesh and suggest a road map which to some extent help in resolving various issues created by migration which in turn will help in a planned development to all involving the last person living in the society.