If one needs basics like food or shelter in urban India, a new migrant is not able to find any. New arrivals come to search for new livelihoods,and they become labourers. They are not aware of their rights, if they do not get paid they do not know how to complain They hardly have a place to reside, where water or electricity is provided for. While making huge plazas, malls, parks and metro stations, we have forgotten to make a dwelling for the poor migrant. No proper residences means, they cannot avail government's food schemes. No fixed residences means no schools where their children can go to, no proper hospitals where they can go to. They work as construction workers. They are the builders who contribute their hard work for India's growth and they find themselves an early grave.They are the unknown builders of modern India on whose sweat India grows. We have denied these poor people their basic needs. Unless we give them a place to stay they would vanish, and we will have no labourers who would work for us.
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