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UP Elections: Unlike ‘Kairana Exodus’, Migration from Bundelkhand Not Made Poll Pitch -Abdul Alim Jafri

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Primarily inhabited by the scheduled caste community, Bundelkhand is home to the most backward villages — where Yogi government's developmental schemes have not reached. NewsClick visits these villages to understand the electorate’s situation here.

Banda (Uttar Pradesh): Village after villages wear a deserted look, with locks hanging on the doors of predominantly kutcha houses with bamboo, mud, thatch, straw and unburnt bricks walls and roofs made of straw or reeds, in the Bundelkhand region — which is spread across districts in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Unlike the alleged 'Kairana exodus', this large-scale displacement, purely for economic reasons, unfortunately, fails to grab headlines; perhaps, because it will cause a dent in the support base of the ruling party rather than helping it polarise voters on religious lines to fetch votes.

Primarily inhabited by the scheduled caste community, these are the most backward villages — where the government's developmental schemes and programmes have not reached. The areas lack basic infrastructures such as roads, clean and safe drinking water, well-equipped healthcare centres and good schools, forget about much-hyped smart villages.

Severe lack of employment opportunities and low wages in the water-starved region forces people to go to other states to work in brick kilns with their entire family as "bonded labourers". The kiln owners hire them through their contractors in the villages. The poor people in such hamlets are given an amount ranging between Rs 10,000-Rs 50,000 as an advance, loaded in trucks like grain sacks and taken to different states to work for a year.

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