Urban life of neo-migrants

By 2020, urban poor will be between 86.5 million to 113.7 million.In the year 2030, 41% of the population of India would have become urban. That is 575 millions will become India's urban citizens. Agriculture did not give any benefits to the farmer.They had to migrate to urban centres when they had sold off their lands,and now there was nothing more to sell. They have to make a living, so they move to towns which were unknown environments to them. The plight of the farmer is pathetic, 100,000 farmers have committed suicide from 1996 to 2003. Rural poverty migrates and becomes urban poverty.The farmers and their families try to make money by moving to cities to pay back debts.They work as unskilled labour force. Minimum daily wages for unskilled labour is 270 Rupees and for semi-skilled is 300 Rupees, but they are paid only 150 Rupees by the contractors. For this paltry sum, people move to the cities and dream to relinquish their debts. For earning this money they have to work for 10 to 12 hours, although the sum is for 8 hours working day only. These new migrants have most difficult lives when the city cannot accommodate them, but it wants to use them as its workforce.This is distress migration, raw reality of a unemployment in India.
Let us take the city of New Delhi which gets more than 250000 migrants every year. More than 50%, of the migrants live in slums. That is 1.8 million new migrants are living in conditions where there is a small space to sleep in, minimum water facilities, congested unhygienic dwellings and no electricity. To add to the problems of the poor, the slums were relocated to beautify the city, displacing the poor people.Upon dislocation,many loose their jobs; many find it difficult to travel to work when they have to spend long hours to go to work.Many children do not get a new school to go to.In November 2008, draft 'National Urban Poverty Reduction Strategy' was mad by the government. After planning, allocation was made for 74,148 flats; but only 96660 were actually constructed. On March 2011 only 87 flats were handed over to the urban poor. What happened to the rest of the money allocated?Rest of the flats?
When Common wealth games were held in Delhi in 2010, we hear about how much money was spent by government but money was usurped   by the men who were going to build big strong infrastructures.About 31,5000 crores on games alone. 90000 crores were spent on beautifying Delhi. That meant dislocating biggest slums located in main places.These slum dwellers had lost their jobs, lost their accommodations, how many many crores of their money was lost?It was not calculated.

In 2003, Supreme Court had made a rule that no new buildings will be made near the banks of river Yamuna at Delhi, as encroachments disturb the river's course. But government made ways to evade and bypass its own regulations, and Technology Park among others were built in the banks of Yamuna and the biggest temple complex was also built in its banks. So ecology and course of river does not matter when the government builds? Slums in the banks were bulldozed, and homes were demolished that does not matter?Poor people's plight makes no difference because they cannot express their views and they are not heard.......When we want to use them as our labour force, we make infrastructures by destroying their homes, we also destroy their lives to beautify our lives......we want better looking cities...Is it fair? Only 9% of the projects meant for Urban Renewal Mission were completed;other funds were diverted to different projects and did not benefit the poor.