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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Distress migration at its peak in Chhattarpur

Distress migration at its peak in Chhattarpur

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published Published on Sep 4, 2009   modified Modified on Sep 4, 2009

Houses in villages are deserted as over 1,50,000 farmers have left in the last one month

Chhattarpur (M.P.): Even as the Centre-State political tussle over Bundelkhand goes on, drought-hit Chhattarpur district of the region is on its way to becoming the epicentre of exodus. While farmers have been migrating from the region for the past three years, this year every day thousands of people are making an exodus, induced by distress, in a bid to eke out a living in Delhi, Haryana and Punjab.

The reasons: crop failure, massive debt, chronic unemployment and a practical failure of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA).

According to local estimates, Chhattarpur alone has seen over 1,50,000 farmers migrate over the last one month. Even though it has been declared drought-hit, farmers complain almost uniformlythat no relief has reached them yet.

The district administration maintains that as long as there is a standing crop, the drought situation cannot be fully assessed.

Even as the government remains in assessment mode, entire families can be seen waiting at the Chhattarpur bus stand to catch the next bus. Similarly, the Jhansi railway station witnesses farmers and their families coming every day in droves to board trains to Delhi.

“Every day 8,000 to10000 people leave,” says Rakesh Naik, a private operator at the Chhattarpur bus tand. “People have been migrating for the last three years, but never like this. Go to the villages, if you really want to see palaayan [migration],” he says.In villages, rows of houses lie locked, the occupants having migrated. The few houses that are still occupied have only children and old men and women as they cannot work.

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Mahim Pratap Singh, The Hindu, 5 September, 2009, http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/05/stories/2009090555311100.htm
 

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