North India Statesman
News India Live, Digital Desk: Bihar Government: Election activity is in full swing in Bihar these days, and a large part of this atmosphere is related to migrant workers living outside Bihar. You must have often heard that stopping migration from Bihar is one of the biggest priorities of the governments, but it seems that all these things have remained in vain. The reality is telling something else, and that reality is the packed trains going from Delhi to Bihar.
Yes, with the arrival of elections, an influx of people returning from Delhi to Bihar has started. The situation is such that even before Chhath Puja, all the trains coming to Bihar from cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Punjab, Gujarat are almost completely filled till November. Big festivals like Diwali and Chhath along with elections, all this together has created pressure to return to Bihar, has shown that even today lakhs of people of Bihar are forced to go out for livelihood.
Looking at this entire scenario, it can only be said that the political campaigns and claims to stop the migrant laborers or to provide them employment in their own state have remained in vain. The leaders who said that they would stop migration, their words did not seem to have much impact on the ground. Workers still return to their homes only during festivals or election season, because lack of work forces them to stay away from their native places. This time too they are returning to their homes both to vote and to celebrate festivals, and that is why it has become difficult to get seats in trains till November. This shows that a lot still needs to be done in the state on the front of employment generation and economic development, so that people are not forced to migrate.
